Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.
Claire Keesey finds herself attracted to two men--Doug MacRay, the leader of a crew of criminals and bank robbers, and FBI agent Adam Frawley--but her relationships are complicated by Frawley's plans to eliminate Boston's criminal element.
Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews are involved with a bank robbery, a lady troubled by gnomes, and an attempt to send the boys to slavery in the Middle East.