The Amadeuses were always considered somewhat strange.
It\'s The Westing Game meets The Addams Family, with a cast of suitably quirky characters you\'d expect--alon.
An autumn-tinted, cozy mystery treat for young readers!--Ben Guterson, Edgar Award nominated author of The Winterhouse Trilogy A fun, spooky, puzzling tale that\'s perfect for reading under the covers.
Schmidt\'s whimsical mystery tale reads like a mashup of Clue and the Brothers Grimm, with plenty of creepy-fun thrills and clever twists along the way.
Devilishly clever.--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review A murder mystery! Phantom creatures! Creepy puppets! Scary woods! A magic mansion! What more could you ask for! --Steven Banks, author of the Middle School Bites series G.
Z. . . . *This atmospheric, magic-infused mystery with an unsettling ending is a party readers won\'t want to miss.
Schmidt has crafted an unforgettable puzzle, perfect for reading on a dark autumn night.
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Filled with strange characters and set in a mansion deep, deep in the woods.
H, a couple who no one can ever quite remember? Or somehow, might precocious, eleven-year-old Dewey and his storytelling dad, Chaucer, be somehow mixed up in all this? The guests must work together to identify the guilty party among them over the course of the evening--but beware the ticking clock, because at midnight, everything is going to change! Told from different perspectives, this is a sly, darkly funny mystery. and Mrs.
Foozle, the town pharmacist? Count Baines, who seems to know when unlucky things are about to happen? Judge Ophelius, who presided over Beatrice\'s case originally? Mr.
Raven, the keeper of the local inn? Wormwood, the Amadeuses\' mysterious caretaker? Dr.
Was it Duchess von Pelt, whose face no one has ever seen? Mrs.
So begins the mystery of who was really responsible for the missing girl thirteen years ago.
Until thirteen years later, when six envelopes land at the doorstep of six households in town: We cordially invite you to a celebration on the 31st of October this Saturday evening at the Amadeus household.
People almost forgot.
They closed their doors, disappeared from life.
And when Mort Amadeus was pegged for the crime, the Amadeuses, once the center of society, retreated.
Their house is full of dark magic.
When six-year-old Beatrice Willoughby vanished at the Amadeuses\' annual All Hallows Eve party, people in the tiny mountain town of Nevermore were quick to whisper: They were always odd.
Even before the incident.
The Amadeuses were always considered somewhat strange
