'Ben Haversham has just attended his uncle's funeral, but when his uncle's body vanishes from Endgate Cemetery, Ben reasons that perhaps his uncle is still alive. A man purporting to work with his uncle, says the funeral was indeed a sham and that his uncle is hiding from a group of iconoclasts who totalled the town's Big Prawn.
'The only architecture of note in Mangrove - apart from the controversial Big Prawn - is a dilapidated Victorian manor on the outskirts of town. Farewell Manor, rumoured to be haunted, creates headlines when two young archaeology students disappear from it whilst digging for buried treasure. Are they trapped in the tunnels that Ben's neighbour says lie beneath the manor?
'Local police think not, preferring to charge a gang of bikies (whom Ben rightly suspects of being undercover agents), with the students' murder. The students are rescued, with Ben's help, but the "bikies" subsequently disappear and are not around when Ben is kidnapped by the iconoclasts. In kidnapping Ben, the iconoclasts hope to flush out his Uncle Izzy and demand an exchange. Will Ben's uncle emerge from hiding in time to rescue him?' (Publication summary)
