After Sammy and Brian find a tin box buried in a cellar wall, five people from North Carolina arrive in Bird-in-Hand, Pa. They're all looking for Shawn Walker. One of "The North Carolina Five" doesn't want him found. A mysterious note from Shawn Walker takes the fifteen-year-old amateur detectives to a bookstore where they confront a blackmail plot. Book #9 in the "Sammy & Brian Mystery" series. (142pp. Gaslight Pub., 1999.)