|aDuring an endlessly rainy summer in the town of Elbow, twelve-year-old Bea and her misfit friends solve an unlikely mystery involving an unidentified dead man who is missing an eye, an evil surgeon, a ring shaped like an old castle, a bag of smelly intestines, and a helpful ghost.
Languishing during a summer in their hometown of Elbow, known only for its endless rain and giant pickle factory, Bea and her friends stumble across the body of the factory's egocentric owner in a creepy waterlogged basement. A first novel.