There, he witnesses fellow inmate Tippy Tinkletrousers (aka Professor Poopypants) escape in a giant Robo-Suit (later reduced to time-traveling trousers). To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”). Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. Apparently set in the same fantastic, alternative bygone America as Ritter’s Jacoby series for teens, this middle-grade adventure starts slow but ramps up into a tale of maternal and brotherly love that’s never mawkishly sentimental. They’ll encounter not just goblins, but also a hinkypunk (a grieving will-o’-the-wisp with a candle in his beard), the Witch of the Wood, and a feral little shape-shifting girl their own age. Thus begins Tinn and Cole’s quest through the Wild Wood, past the Oddmire, and beyond the Deep Dark. Neither boy knows who the real changeling actually is, and though they’re mischievous and irreverent, they each want what’s best for one another. But one day the boys receive a mysterious letter explaining that if the changeling child doesn’t join the goblin horde, all the magical creatures will die. Now, years later, they’re inseparable, and both drive their mother to distraction, playing in the quarry and swapping the salt for the sugar. Though everyone knows one of the babies must be a changeling, their mother insisted on raising Tinn and Cole as twins. Thirteen years ago, a goblin out of the Wild Wood brought a doppelgänger to exchange for a human infant-then had to dash away to escape detection, leaving both infant and changeling behind. The mystery may wrap up a little too quickly for some, but never fear: It's the first in a series New Fiddleham's ghouls and goblins surely won't stay law-abiding for long.A human boy and a goblin changeling are raised as brothers. Supporting characters, especially a female ghost whose exasperation with the detective belies affection and a former assistant turned "temporarily waterfowl" - yes, he's a duck - add humor and texture. Abigail's level-headed perspective serves as the perfect window onto Jackaby's occupation, lending plausibility to even the most fantastical turn of events. Her first outing with Jackaby is to the scene of a brutal murder where the evidence, in his opinion, points to a nonhuman culprit. Ritter wastes no time in helping her find what she seeks. Restless and ill-content with her proper English upbringing, she steps off the boat in 1892 at the fictional New England harbor city of New Fiddleham ripe for the adventure that has thus far eluded her during her travels.
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