In "The Legacy of Euriah Pillar," retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill reveals how the bizarre will of an eccentric millionaire leads to treachery, deceit, and a triple homicide.
In the sequel, Dr. Alexander Scofield joins Underhill as they uncover clues beginning with Euriah Pillar's long-forgotten strong-box and ending up at the West Barnstable Burial Ground crypt of the mysterious Jabez Howland.
"The Queen is in the Counting House" is a timely tale about up-and-coming Boston Red Sox catcher Zachary Devlin who could perhaps take the team to a World Championship, but only if he can survive, literally, the annual Cape Cod exhibition game.
A child's prank goes horribly wrong, trapping a young boy in a cast iron safe in "Don't Touch That Dial!" The listener follows in real time as Captain Underhill must use his wits to defeat an enemy he can't out-think or out-maneuver, the locked safe, in time to open the door before the boy runs out of air.
A treasure-trove of Edgar Allan Poe memorabilia found in a hundred and fifty-year-old credenza, an early book of Poe poetry, Poe's obituary, a stuffed Raven, a desiccated cat, a lock of hair, and a Tiffany gold bug broach, may turn out to be the stuff that dreams are made of at The Antiques Roadshow, but only if retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill and Dr. Alexander Scofield can thwart the rogue trying to make off with it all.
In "The Whirlpool," retired Cape Cod Police Captain Waverly Underhill and Dr. Alexander Scofield try to take a vacation but instead find themselves kidnapped by an escaped convict before being swept into the spiral maw of a monstrous tidal whirlpool, fourteen hundred feet across. Can even their wits save them from one of nature's rarest and most awesome displays of raw power?
In "The Cobra in the Kindergarten," Underhill and Scofield must find a deadly Egyptian cobra escaped in the vicinity of the Robin Hood Elementary School before it kills a child, unless, of course, it finds them first.
