Books by Michael Dahl

Finn and his mystery-writer uncle head to Iceland in search of the Haunted City of Tquuli, where Finn''s archaeologist parents were last seen before their odd disappearance eight years ago. Finn doesn''t believe the creepy legends about the Haunted City and the ancient Vikings who lived there -- until a member of the rock-climbing expedition vanishes from inside a sleeping bag...one that was dangling a hundred feet from the base of an icy cliff! Then another climber disappears, leaving a trail of footprints that abruptly end in a field of snow. Is it modern-day murder, or the revenge of phantom Viking warriors?

Thirteen-year-old Finnegan Zwake, his uncle Stoppard -- a bestselling mystery writer -- and their friend Jared are off to an archaeological dig in sunny Aguilar, land of giant cacti, jungles, and dinosaurs. Dead ones, that is.While Finn and his uncle are digging up treasure left behind by Finn's archaeologist parents, now mysteriously missing, the crew is digging up very valuable dinosaur eggs. But digging too deeply can stir up trouble, not to mention a murder, or two, or three....

One night, a young student's thesaurus disappears from her bedroom. A trail of slimy footprints leads to the bedroom window, so she looks outside and sees the thesaurus down below in the grass. Then, suddenly, a colossal monster unfolds itself from the pages of the thesaurus like an origami creation gone terribly wrong.

Slate is a cliffhanger -- a person who tracks down specific books on the skyscraper-like shelves deep within the Library of Doom. Slate boasts that he can find any book, even the one that no Librarian has been able to locate: THE SCRAWLER. But before Slate can locate the long-lost book, he finds more than he bargained for .