A 13-year-old boy and his mystery-writer uncle are featured in this first of three suspense novels that revolve around adventures in exotic locales. Finnegan is staying with his uncle, hoping his parents will return from Ireland, where they disappeared several years ago during an archaeological expedition. When the boy discovers a body in his basement, he and his uncle end up searching for missing Mayan gold artifacts.
I DON'T KNOW WHY I FELT SICK. I MEAN, YES, IT WAS THE FIRST DEAD BODY I EVER SAW. BUT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE COMFORTABLE. AFTER ALL, MY WHOLE FAMILY LIKES DEAD THINGS....
Thirteen-year-old Finnegan Zwake is staying with his Uncle Stoppard, a bestselling mystery writer, and still hoping his parents will return from an archaeological expedition in Iceland. They disappeared there several years ago.
Life with his uncle is fairly normal -- until the day Finn discovers a body in the basement. A dead body. It's in the storage area where Finn's parents left behind gold treasure from their last expedition. And missing from the storage space is a magnificent Mayan gold figure, the Horizontal Man....