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When their offer to help investigate a jewel robbery is refused, the Three Investigators help an author of children's fantasy books with a gnome infestation. Suspecting something ridiculous, the boys stumble instead upon a criminal plot ... and peril. As with others in the series, some well-intentioned ethnic characterizations have not aged well, but the mystery in this one is a cut above the last.