Sam attempts to discover who is gassing the assembly-line workers at the parachute factory, the town's largest industry, and traces the culprit to the hotel his own family manages. Originally published as The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street. Original.

Dead bodies which appear and disappear mysteriously are threatening to lose Sam's father his job as manager of the Bessledorf Hotel. What can be done? How do you find a ghost?

What's bigger than a chair, but smaller than a house? Larger than a loaf of bread, but isn't an animal or a vegetable? What could this ghost want?! Bernie and his friends Georgene and Weasel are going crazy trying to figure out how to please the ghost who's haunting Bernie's father's hotel. If Bernie's father loses his job, then his family will need to move again—but Bernie likes Middleburg, and wants to stay. And so, before his father can be ousted from the suffering hotel, Bernie must face the ghost—and figure out how to make it leave them all alone!

Bernie Magruder sets out to investigate a mysterious intruder whom he see climbing the fire escape at the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor and finds himself embroiled with an embezzling business executive, mysterious undertakers, and other shenanigans.

Someone set off a bomb in the Bessledorf Bus Depot—and all fingers are pointing at Bernie's sister Delores. And the next suspect in line is Joseph, their brother! It's up to Bernie and his friends Georgene and Weasel to help solve the case—and save the Magruder name.

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In order to get the big bedroom, Bernie needs to get his sister out of the house and so, with the help of his friends, begins the work of finding Mr. Right.

There are strange goings-on once again in Middleburg, and Bernie Magruder is determined to get to the bottom of things, and maybe get his picture in the paper in the process. Someone has put up posters all over town warning townspeople that the dreaded Indiana Aztec bat, whose bite is often fatal, has been sighted in the area. What's more, the town is in a political uproar over the bells recently placed in the church belfry that every hour—twenty-four hours a day—chime out the hymn "Abide with me." Placed there in accordance with the will of town benefactor Eleanor Scuttlefoot so that her surviving husband will always be reminded of her, the incessant pealing of the bells is driving the town mad. Who put up all those posters about a species of bat no one has ever heard of? What can the townspeople do to return some peace to their lives? And are the bats that Bernie and his family see swooping about the belfry the dreaded Indiana Aztecs? Bernie Magruder and his friends Georgene and Weasel set out to answer these questions in this new volume in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's hilarious series about the Magruder family who live in and operate Middleburg's famous Bessledorf Hotel.