The Catalina Cahoots

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sparky's latest adventure takes her island hoppin' to Catalina off the coast of Prohibition-era Southern California and being that our preteen super-sleuth is involved neither Hollywood nor murder can be far behind!</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A film is being shot on this island paradise and one of the movie people whom nobody likes winds up impaled on a castle spire. Was it in fact murder? Or merely an embarrassingly terminal accident? True to form the ever-resourceful Sparky must narrow down the suspects who are as numerous as they are wacky.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The usual stable of downtown characters is truly coconuts and back in full force: silent-film star Tootsie LaFemme Marigold Whisper-Whisper Bobby and the formerly meek Gilbert aka the Goblin who also tries his hand--or rather iron fist--at directing this time around. Can Sparky figure out the culprit before anyone else gets deep-sixed? And will the island be safe again for tourists? Or will paradise be lost forever?</span></p>