Title: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones Author: Rick Riordan Summary: The 39 Clues is about a boy named Dan Cahill and his sister Amy Cahill. Their grandma, Grace Cahill, just died and they have to go to her funeral. Their Aunt Beatrice is their guardian, but she technically doesn’t live with them. She lives on the other side of town in a building that doesn’t allow kids. So they have an au pair. Every couple weeks, Aunt Beatrice fired their au pair and hired a new one. Once they got to the Cahill mansion, they went to the grave yard and waited for the funeral to start. Before it started, her lawyer, William McIntyre, told everybody to look in their programs. If you were in her will, then you would have a gold envelope in your program. Everybody that had a gold envelope had to meet in the Great Hall. If you were in the Great Hall, then you were chosen to participate in a contest. If you wanted to, then under your chair there was an envelope with the first clue in it. Then you could walk out of the room with one million dollars.