Thomas's class is taking a weekend nature trip to Devil's Island, and his bionic best friend is coming along for the fun. But danger is in the air. Legend has it there's a secret volcano on the island. Could someone be plotting to activate it and destroy Thomas's nearby hometown.

It's up to Thomas and McGrowl to use their powers of telepathy and bionic-doggie strengths to sniff out the truth about a suspicious mayoral candidate who has his eye on the quiet town of Cedar Springs.

A building superintendent rescues a woman from the pool he maintains. He discovers she is a character from a bedtime story and is trying to make her way home. He works with the tenants to protect her from creatures that want to keep her in our world.

Jerry has to do one last errand for the mob before they let him find employment elsewhere--he has to go to Mexico and recover a rare and very valuable pistol "The Mexican", which is said to be cursed. While his girlfriend, Samantha, objects to Jerry taking the assignment, he isn't in much of a position to argue. Once in Mexico, Jerry finds the pistol easily enough, but making his way back to the States proves to be an unexpected challenge. Meanwhile,...

Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered his wife and tried to escape London on a ship to America in the early twentieth century. He was caught in part due to the new invention of the wireless by Guglielmo Marconi, which was used on the ship. Larson draws from letters, memoirs, Scotland Yard reports, and other documents in telling the story and filling in its historical context of the Edwardian era.