P.C. Hawke mysteries ;

"A scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park turns up dead. and P.C. and Mackenzie are sure its no accident..."

As teenagers P.C. and Mackenzie, amateur detectives, escort a mummy down the Amazon river in Peru on behalf of P.C.'s archeologist father, they investigate whether the murder of a fellow passenger is related to an ancient curse.

When their friend Tom is accused of murdering the chief biologist at the Museum of Natural History, P.C. and Mackenzie discover a mystery involving a world-famous necklace, an anthropologist trained in hypnosis, and a fat hairy tarantula named Aristotle.