The Mystery of the Talking Skull
Robert Arthur
Mass Market Paperback
(Scholastic, Jan. 1, 1974)
It all started with a dollar. One dollar paid at auction by Jupiter Jones for a dusty old trunk that once belonged to The Great Gulliver, a magician who vanished as mysteriously as one of his tricks. The trunk attracts a host of bizarre characters, like Zelda the Gypsy, Three-Finger Munger, and Maximilian the Mystic. But what's inside the trunk is even more bizarre -- a skull that talks!