Publisher's Synopsis
- Eleven-year-old Jack Putnam and his eight-year-old brother Benny are beingdragged against their will on a summer-long vacation with their family. And notto somewhere cool like Disney World, but to a little port town in Maine namedChowder Bay, far away from anyplace fun. But what promises to be a very bleaksummer quickly becomes a series of exciting adventures in one of the mostmysterious places on earth!
- This third volume has the boys investigating the mysterious death of Dr.True, a 19th century inhabitant of Chowder Bay who is most famous for 'Dr.True's Wonderful Elixir'. Was the town's famed hero, CaptainHolister, involved? As with everything else in Chowder Bay, not everything is asit appears.
