Kris, jealous of her sister Lindy's success as a ventriloquist, convinces her father to buy her a dummy of her own, but weird things start to happen after she reads the words inscribed on a piece of paper found in the dummy's shirt pocket.
After Kris gets a mannequin of her own because she is jealous of all the attention which a ventriloquist's dummy n brings to her twin sister, horrible happenings seem to double.
Using clues derived from mathematical knowledge, Mathnet detectives Pat Tuesday and George Frankly solve a case involving a ventriloquist's stolen dummy and a suitcase filled with counterfeit money.
Traces the history of ventriloquism from biblical times to the present, discussing how it was viewed by the Church, how it developed into a form of entertainment, who the most popular ventriloquists have been, and how they have been portrayed in literature and film.
A guide to ventriloquism that covers talking without lip movement, throwing one's voice with the distant voice, working with figures, creating material, performing, finding work, and other related topics.
Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?.