Brothers Jack and Benny Putnam have been dragged against their will on a boring, summer-long vacation with their family in Chowder Bay. But what promised to be a very bleak summer has quickly become a series of exciting adventures in one of the most mysterious places on earth!
In this, third volume, Jack and Benny are investigating a 19th century murder, a famed elixir, and an unusual ghost. The boys soon discover that in Chowder Bay not everything is as it appears.