To get into her brother Kelby's Northern Spy club, Zoe Elwood must walk a narrow beam over rusted farm machinery and then solve a crime. Her opportunity comes when a friend's grandmother dies after eating a bowl of pea soup laced with insecticide. Kelby places the blame on the elderly Bagley sisters who raise strange, smelly plants and distribute soup throughout the neighborhood, and gives an indignant Zoe just five days to prove them innocent. Can she do it? Well, maybe, with the help of next door neighbor, Spence. But then Spence is abducted by a man and woman in a shiny black car, and a panicky Zoe fears she may be next. And the five days, her gleeful brother exults, are almost up.... 

Juvenile -- ages 10-12