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While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, Dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings.

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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate a mysterious man in black who Josh believes is a vampire.

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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help catch the thieves who have stolen gold from Sammi's parents, the king and queen of Costra.

Reports of zombies and grave-robbers alarm the people of a Louisiana swampland village, but Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink begin to suspect that the supernatural may not be the cause of the eerie occurrences.