As soon as twelve-year-old Steve Brixton opens a detective office in his backyard, he and his best friend Dana are caught up in a tangle of cases, from breaking up a ring of piratical smugglers, to recovering a stolen surfboard, to tracking down a fifth-grader's missing gym shorts.

The reader must make the right decisions in order to get out of the Red Flowers gang and their evil business of importing noncitizens into a life of violence and modern-day slavery.

Crash at Cannibal Valley: When their small plane goes down in an area in Indonesia inhabited by cannibals, Spitfire and his family have their faith in God tested as they fight to survive against all odds. Terror in Branco Grande: Kate senses trouble even before her father agrees to transport "relief supplies" to South America, and when he is arrested, she and her brother attempt to prove his innocence. Disaster in the Yukon: When a blizzard traps...