When the cousins stumble upon Nura, a tenacious girl from Turkey, she promises to help them track down the parcel and rescue Colonel Battersea. Before he can do so, however, Grandpa vanishes without a trace. Soon after they settle in, Grandpa receives a cryptic telegram and promptly whisks the cousins off to New York City so that he can meet an unknown courier and collect a very important package. Whatever the cousins expected, Colonel Battersea isn t it. A cross between "Indiana Jones" and "The DaVinci Code" for kids, you won t be able to put down this classic adventure set in 1920s New York City with an Arabian twist! On a stormy May day in 1929, William and Maxine arrive on the doorstep of Battersea Manor to spend the summer with a grandfather they barely remember.
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