The Horizontal Man
- Authors
- Dahl, Michael
- Publisher
- Simon Pulse
- Tags
- mystery , childrens , adolescence , action & adventure , young adult fiction , juvenile fiction , maya art , mysteries & detective stories , mystery fiction , general , zwake; finnegan (fictitious character) , teenage boys , boys & men , social issues , young adult
- ISBN
- 9781416986683
- Date
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.31 MB
- Lang
- en
I DON'T KNOW WHY I FELT SICK. I MEAN, YES, IT WAS THE FIRST DEAD BODY I EVER SAW. BUT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE COMFORTABLE. AFTER ALL, MY WHOLE FAMILY LIKES DEAD THINGS....
Thirteen-year-old Finnegan Zwake is staying with his Uncle Stoppard, a bestselling mystery writer, and still hoping his parents will return from an archaeological expedition in Iceland. They disappeared there several years ago.
Life with his uncle is fairly normal -- until the day Finn discovers a body in the basement. A dead body. It's in the storage area where Finn's parents left behind gold treasure from their last expedition. And missing from the storage space is a magnificent Mayan gold figure, the Horizontal Man....