An Ordinary Treasure Hunt

Pirates on Lake Ordinary?

Anne Hambaugh, the young investigative journalist with the Ordinary Outlook, is relaxing after her last mystery when another is dropped in her lap: a ghost was seen at the Macleod Manor House.

An imposing structure of sixteenth century Scottish architecture, it was the ancestral home of a very wealthy—and, reputedly, a very cantankerous—Scottish sea captain named Angus MacLeod. He had had the massive structure shipped, stone by stone, to a remote location on a bluff overlooking beautiful Lake Ordinary.

Why he had left Scotland was shrouded in mystery, though there were plenty of theories. To add further to the tale was the mysterious disappearance of Captain MacLeod and Eleanor, his young bride. Could it be related to the curse on a stolen jewel-encrusted gold statuette of the Aztec goddess Tlaltecuhtli—the one who gives and devours life?

And, of course, there was the question as to what had become of his fortune.

Danger follows Anne and her companions as they work through the clues.