Ben Bones, Genealogical Consultant and self-described Articulator of Family Skeletons, has been hired to dig through a family's history to identify and locate a missing artifact, the legendary Paneta's Crown. The old country rule of primogeniture requires it to be passed to the eldest son for the family's benefit, but no one told the three siblings who are fighting for it where The Crown is, or even what it is.
It's Bones to the rescue again, but in the process, he's terrorized by the evil queen, goes swimming with sharks (literally), and is a witness to a fatal accident . . . or was it actually an execution? It's sort of hard to tell.