Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafÃb and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

"Desperado Detectives--aka Mo Lo Beau and her best friend Dale, along with newly-appointed intern, Harm Crenshaw--must take on a new case when Dale's daddy goes on the lam just before his trial is about to start"--

Mandie Shaw loves to visit her new friend, Faith, at Miss Abigail's big house. Miss Abigail has a china cabinet in the front hall full of precious china that only she is allowed to handle. But when a beloved teapot turns up missing, does it mean a thief has broken into Miss Abigail's house?Mandie's determined to find the answer - and the missing teapot - in time for Miss Abigail's big Christmas party.