the five find adventure when they spend easter vacation at mr lenoirs sinister house smugglers top set high above an eerie marsh the house is honeycombed with hidden staircases and tunnels that once served as a hideaway for smugglers when strange lights begin to appear the five suspect that the tunnels are once more in use this is the story of alaska and the alaskans written with a vividness and clarity which shifts scenes frequently and yet manages to tie the work into a rewarding whole mcphee segues from the wilderness to life in urban alaska to the remote bush country