The arrival of a mysterious traveling carnival spells disaster for the peaceful community of Obidiah's Glenn as the adults in town fall ill and the children beg... » 

The arrival of a mysterious traveling carnival spells disaster for the peaceful community of Obidiah's Glenn as the adults in town fall ill and the children begin to run wild, and the only hope lies in sixteen-year-old Paisley Curtin, who enlists the aid of Judy Drood, a self-styled but disreputable girl detective who had been friends with her la «