The Horizontal Man

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....