An IRA/CBC Children's Choice Will Mr. Pin survive a "case" of bad chocolate? Can priceless dinosaur eggs be found? And just who is Mort Chisel? In a second story, an opera conductor with a mysterious name disappears in a cloud of blue smoke.
"Two more neatly plotted adventures of the penguin detective staccato, deadpan delivery in whimsical parody of Dashiell Hammett genuinely funny, brief mysteries."