Billy Beak and Angel Wilson had just met, Angel moved in Mr. Watermelon's old house and he was very mean. He was also very rich. One day he disappeared. Angel wanted to find the treasure because she wanted to be a treasure hunter like her dad. They found a map and got the whole neighbor hood to dig up her back yard but didn't find anything. They interviewed everyone in town that knew Mr. Watermelon and got a whole bunch of clues. They found out that Mr. Watermelon cashed 1 million dollars from the bank and had has money underground with him. Mrs. Jenkins was not nice and she knew a lot about Mr. Watermelon but she was very mean. She had a bridge party and angel made ant chocolate chocolates. She found out and was very mad. They found out he dun an airtight hole in the ground and they were trying to find it and got trapped in it.

The Treasure Trap also goes by an alternate title, The Haunted Mansion Mystery, and is the story of shy Billy Beak and his new next-door neighbor, Angel Wilson, an eccentric young girl who is as wild as Billy is mild. She has a yen for adventure and the supernatural, and when she learns that her new home once belonged to a long-dead miser believed to have horded a million dollars somewhere in the house, Angel is anxious to get rich and drags Billy along for the ride. She recruits neighborhood children to dig up her yard in one scene, and ultimately gets Billy into all sorts of mischief looking for the treasure.

I really wish I could relay more about this book, and I'm surprised after twenty years I can even remember what I have just written! The Treasure Trap has been out-of-print for years, and I am unable to find a copy where I live. I would love to get my hands on a reasonably-priced, good condition copy, however, if anything to have as a memento of the first book I truly adored on my own. If you find one for yourself, hang on to it. It's a story I still treasure after all these years.