"Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents"--Provided by publisher.

Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.

When a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt go missing in Russia, the Kidd siblings head to St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to find the bad guys and locate the treasure.

Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.

"Somewhere in Saint Erasmus's Catholic church, there's a parish register containing a firsthand account of the sinking of the "San Telmo." To find that ship in honor of their murdered aunt, Chris and Carrie first have to find the register. And it turns out that the church is supposed to be very haunted."--Page [4] cover.

Surveys the activities of the explorers and pirates who went in search of gold and describes the unsolved mysteries of lost treasures of the world.

Discusses such ancient "lost" cities as Machu Picchu, Troy, Knossos, Great Zimbabwe, and Angkor, as well as more modern ghost towns.

The San Telmo: a Spanish merchant vessel lost in a hurricane off the coast of Archer's Grove while carrying a magnificent dowry home to the Spanish Princess. Chris, Carrie, and Maddison think they know where it is. But if they want to find the ship, they're going to have to survive screaming caves, psychotic oceanography professors, dangerous cave floors, ghosts--and a boat with one terrible paint job. But for Aunt Elsie, who set them on this investigation,...

"Bick, Beck, and the rest of the Kidds face down their nemesis, search for lost treasure, and race to solve a generations-old mystery that threatens to ruin the Kidd family name"--

Looks at several ancient treasure troves, presenting information about their discoverers, how the discoveries were made, and what was found at each of them.