Lucky Shoemaker loves being a detective and solving mysteries of very strange crimes. She once solved the mystery of the holes that had been stolen. Now she has a new mystery that is just as baffling. Someone is taking people's time, time that has been saved has disappeared and time that been unaccountably lost. Then all the clocks in the neighbourhood just simply stopped. Who was behind this mystery? Could the culprit be the strange Mr Grimm who is always around when no one has any time of their own anymore?
Did he take the time Lucky's father had saved in a bottle? What happened to the half time at the soccer match?
In the course of her investigations Lucky comes face to face with the mysterious Mr Grimm, just as he about to leave for Times Square (New York). Will the two detectives arrive in time to help Lucky prevent his escape?
This is a story for readers who like to go beyond the bounds of possibility