Pirates Cove

Two young children are spending their first full summer vacation with their widowed grandmother and her brother, Uncle Joe, in the small town of Bath, North Carolina. They are not looking forward to staying in the small town. They think they have a long boring summer ahead. But they learn that their grandmother's restaurant, Pirate's Cove, is being constantly robbed of its supplies. They team up with two other children from the neighborhood and solve the baffling mystery that even the police can't seem to solve. Could some of the things Uncle Joe tells them about the pirate Blackbeard set them on the right track in solving the Mystery at Pirate's Cove?

Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, Scrabble champion and guy-with-worst-luck-in-the-world-when-it-comes-to-dating, is ready to make a change. So when he learns he's inherited both a failing bookstore and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate's Cove, Rhode Island, it's full steam ahead! Sure enough, the village is charming, its residents amusingly eccentric, and widowed police chief Jack Carson is decidedly yummy (though probably as straight as he is stern). However, the bookstore is failing, the mansion is falling down, and there's that little drawback of finding rival bookseller--and head of the unwelcoming-committee--Trevor Maples dead during the annual Buccaneer Days celebration. Still, it could be worse. And once Police Chief Carson learns Trevor was killed with the cutlass hanging over the door of Ellery's bookstore, it is.

Two teenage boys, one American, one Israeli, try to solve a mystery involving an agent who has been missing for thirty-six years.

Young's warm and conversational writing style gives even a landlubber a comfortable trip through the navigational intricacies of sailing the coastal waters en route to the shoreside attractions that beckon all travelers. -- Touring America