Finnegan Zwake: Difference between revisions

* ''The Worm Tunnel'' - Finn, Uncle Stoppard, and Jared go to the [[Latin Land|central American nation]] of Agualar--where Finn's parents found the Horizontal Man--to look for another gold statue that was left buried at the site. But the Zwakes' old camp is now occupied by a group of paleontologists, and not very long after Finn's arrival, the leader of the new dig is [[Locked Room Mystery|murdered in his tent]]...

* ''The Ruby Raven'' - Finn and his uncle go to [[Qurac|Occo]] (a country sandwiched between Lesser Occo and Morocco) when Stoppard's latest book--a re-working of Hamlet in which a [[Sweet Polly Oliver|cross-dressing]] Ophelia solves the dead king's murder--is nominated for the Ruby Raven award. The prize is the titular raven statue and one million dollars--enough money to fund an expedition to find Finn's parents in Iceland. And on top of everything else, it seems that ''someone'' wants Stoppard Sterling dead.... Contains the first on-page appearance of Stoppard's rival author, Mona Trafalgar-Squeer.

* ''The Coral Coffin'' - Finn and his uncle follow his parents' trail to [[Land Down Under|Australia]] and the Great Barrier Reef, where they quickly encounter ''antoher'' dead body. Not long after, they're picked up by a crew of modern-day pirates led by a [[Action Girl|woman]] named Blue Jade, who keeps poisonous octopi as pets. Then someone starts poisoning the crewmen, and Finn and Stoppard have twenty-four hours to [[Clear My Name|prove their innocence]] or face the captain's pets themselves.

 

* [[Acquitted Too Late]] (particularly in ''Worm Tunnel'' and ''Ruby Raven'')

* [[Backstory]] (Finn's parents [[Parental Abandonment|go missing]] years before the first book)

* [[Clear My Name]] (''Coral Coffin'')

* [[Comic Book Time]] (Debatably--Finn is thirteen in all five books, which probably couldn't all have happened in one year.)