The Trap Door

A Valentine's Day Massacre Mystery

De: Greg Ratajik

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A thirteen-year-old amateur detective uncovers a family secret buried in a 95-year-old crime when she discovers her ancestor's connection to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Forres Avenue in St. Joe, Michigan is quiet—brick-paved, tree-lined, the kind of street where neighbors wave and nothing much changes. Until Lisa Camp finds a name in an old newspaper clipping.

Fred "Killer" Burke. The gangster who vanished after orchestrating one of America's most infamous crimes. The man forensics connected to the Thompson submachine guns used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. And according to a genealogy database, his birth name was Thomas Amos Camp—Lisa's ancestor.

What started as a puzzle—a mystery to solve between library microfiche and late-night Wikipedia spirals—becomes deeply personal. With her best friends Kelly and Robert pulled into the hunt, Lisa dives into the questions no one ever closed: Where did Burke's robbery money go? What were the trap doors in his bungalow really for? And why did the most dangerous man in America choose this quiet Michigan neighborhood to hide?

But some family secrets are buried for a reason. And some puzzles, once solved, change everything.

Perfect for readers who love historical mysteries, compelling coming-of-age stories, and the thrill of uncovering buried truths.