Retti Spaghetti is the new born son of Antonio Amberetti-Scola and artist Leanora Lantana. (Tony and Lea). He joins his adopted sister Nicola, and dob, Lucy.This book is next in the saga after "Sea Smoke", "The Lobster Pot Wars" and "Bellaluna." Tony now owns several boat yards. Lea continues to paint and care for their much loved children and life appears idyllic in the old fishing town of Marblehead by the sea when a criminal from the past in Italy enters their placid, peaceful existence, kidnapping Nicola and Retti and demanding an enormous ransom. Lea"s lawyer friend, Sylvia, athough busy on an unrelated case involving murder in Boston"s Back Bay, enlists her detective friend, Skip O"Halloran. to help find the missing children. Four murders take place on Old Burial Hill, the oldest cemetery in the country. To top it all off, Lea and Tony and several peacocks host a disastrous clambake! (Recipes from their Marblehead kitchen are included in the book.)Original cover photograph by Liz Hamilton McDonald.