The Ruby Raven (Volume 3) (Finnegan Zwake)

Traveling to Occo with his uncle to attend a mysterydom award ceremony young Finn becomes skeptical of the author nominees as strange life-threatening events keep occurring. . Finn and his mystery writer uncle are off to exotic Occo located between Lesser Occo and Morocco. Uncle Stoppard has been nominated for the most prestigious award in mysterydom: the Ruby Raven. The grand prize? One million dollars as well as a dark carved bird with real rubies for eyes and a ruby pendant dangling from its neck. Even with all of the excitement of Uncle Stoppard’s nomination Finn starts getting nervous. There was a strange car that exploded just as they were leaving the airport and a Moroccan cobra that was slithering in his room when he arrived…. Is it a coincidence? Or could one of the invited authors be too eager to win the bucks and the bird?