Chief Inspector Albert the duck and his three detective assistants follow a series of clues to find the batch of pumpkins stolen from the town pumpkin patch.
Rebecca Estelle, an old woman whose dislike of pumpkins stems from her childhood when her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a bumper crop of the hated orange squash.
Describes and illustrates the growth of a pumpkin from seed to flower to full-grown fruit, and includes an experiment and a recipe for roasted pumpkin seeds.