'Phyllis Wong, that brilliant young magician and clever sleuth, is confronted with a quest which began in the time of her great-grandfather, Wallace Wong, Conjuror of Wonder!
'Is it possible that one of the greatest myths of time could be more than a story? Could it be that one of the most mysterious figures from History can be found? Phyllis hopes desperately that this might be so, for only a figure this magical could possibly hope to thwart The Great Whimpering - the ending of the world as we have come to know it!
'The third astonishing mystery starring Phyllis Wong from the ever-scrawling pen nib of that tireless author, Geoffrey McSkimming.' (Publication summary)