Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in
Emilio's grandfather gives a Hispanic flavor to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears as he brings a beautiful, black-braided heroine to the center of the tale.
The ten-year-old detective continues his war on crime in Idaville through ten more cases, for which the reader is invited to guess the solution before it is revealed
