Twelve-year-old Angie, while tracking a gang of teenage thieves to help her sister who is a police officer, becomes dangerously involved with counterfeiters.
The first case to come to Phoebe Danger's detective agency involves a priceless cough syrup bottle, a group of Canadian ornithologists, and a shop specializing in Latin American curios.
Second-grader Goofball Malone is known to be good with jokes, but he finally gets his chance to be a detective when a dalmatian dog, Professor Pup, runs off from his owner.
The group of young people in Newport, Rhode Island, who call themselves the Casecrackers, try to discover the identity of a ghost seen on nearby Hazard Island.