Good point! I’ve just done that in Genki as well!
I read とないて as と (quotation particle) and て-form of 鳴く which to me implies that it is an animal making the noise.
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Thanks @nienque and @Micki, I think I’m familiar with everything you’ve mentioned, but just got overwhelmed while reading. I’m definitely much more familiar with のです than なんだ so I’ll have to keep an eye out for that.
ワンワン探偵団 has some new challenges that なぜ？どうして？ missed, namely with dialogue knowing who is speaking and who they’re speaking too. These pages were great for that with the note left by the criminal being recited by the man from the tutor school.
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I thought start of chapter 3 has been quite tricky.
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Reading this part a second time for a better understanding (because I rushed through it yesterday 
)
Page 110
そばに人がいたらいかない
I don’t really get this grammar 
Google translate (
) tells me this means something like “I don’t want people to be close by”. But I don’t know how to get to that translation…
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From what I remember of this part of the story I broke it down as:
いたら いた+ら to give the ‘Tara’ form, meaning if or when but in this case it’s ‘if’
行かない not go
So putting it together:
Summary
そばに人がいたら if there are people beside it (the statue wasn’t it?)
行かない (I) won’t go/ won’t head towards
If there are people beside the statue, I won’t head towards it.
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