Sherlock Bones leads the reader step-by-step through his thought process as he attempts to find who stole the museum’s Royal Blue Diamond. Sherlock Bones is a Tawny Frogmouth bird skeleton from one of the museum’s exhibits and his partner Watts is a stuffed Indian Ringneck Parrot, Blue Mutation from another exhibit. Together Sherlock Bones is sure he and Watts will be able to solve the mystery of the stolen diamond, otherwise all of the museum exhibits will be packed up and put into storage. They definitely do not want that to happen. Watts never says a word or moves, for that matter. Sherlock Bones has to carry Watts everywhere. But that does not stop Watts from being a great partner. Sherlock bounces questions off of Watts and either ‘hears‘ Watts’ answer ( no one else can hear Watts) or comes up with an answer on his own. Sherlock is suspicious of everything that moves in the museum after closing hours: the raccoon- Grace, the rats, and even the security guard.

While Sherlock Bones, Watts, and even Grace try to solve the mystery the reader goes on a very nice walking tour of the museum after hours. Educational, perhaps. There are several false leads before the mystery is solved on this inside job. The question now is, who solved the mystery first?

The graphic novel format makes for a hilarious tongue-in-cheek read.