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This book is about a boy named Thomas that feels lugubrious a first when he leaves his grandmothers house.  He and his family move to a house on the outskirts of a town in Ohio.  On the steps of his house he falls thru a hole and lands in a tunnel.  In the tunnel he hears strange noises, but then gets saved.  After he gets saved he asks his dad if he can go up the hill next to their house.  There he hears the same strange noises he heard in the tunnel.  Then he runs down the hill and awakens an old man named Mr. Pluto.  Mr. Pluto opens a trap door that is under Thomas and Thomas almost falls thru the door.  Thomas gets up to see Mr. Pluto coming after him.  Mr. Small (Thomas dad) and Thomas sneak up on Mr. Pluto.  After that they meet Mr. Plutos son (Mayhew) and they learn the Darrow brothers scare Mr. Pluto all the time.  Knowing that, they make a plan to get back at the Darrow brothers.  They put this plan to action at night.  This plan involves surrounding the Darrow brothers with ghost-like creatures.  This plan worked and scared the Darrow brothers out of their socks and shoes.

This book is a page-turner mystery.  For those of you that like mysteries, read this book!!!