The Case of the Waltzing Mouse (Whitman 1564)

187 pp. In The Case of the Waltzing Mouse, the fifth book of the Brains Benton mystery series, Gustave von Maltzbenden's pet mouse Xenophon can waltz. This should not seem strange because Gustave is an animal trainer. What seems strange to Brains Benton and Jimmy Carson is that Gustave and Xenophon have disappeared, leaving behind a trailer full of hungry animals, a fortune in bills where only a skin-diver could find it, and enough clues to send the members of Benton and Carson International Detective Agency on the wildest boat ride of their young lives.