Abstract:
Stone Harbor, Maine, is a town with secrets – just the place for a pair of junior detectives to spend their summer vacation. Teaming up with two elderly local ladies, Elizabeth Pollack and her kid brother Jonathan investigate a long-forgotten mystery, the theft of a valuable Chinese scroll from the town hall in 1890. Newly discovered evidence leads them to an empty inn, an old graveyard, and finally, to a lighthouse island that reveals the last puzzling clue. But someone, it seems, is trying to scare them off the case. Who else is looking for the town’s lost treasure?