The Cruncher Crusades are a series of funny adventure stories involving ghosts, detectives, danger and lost treasure. Great for teenagers and tweeners but enjoyed by folks of all ages. Joe Cruncher is a wiseacre detective wannabe who constantly has to deal with such things as sinister ghosts who enjoy scaring him and malicious animals that want to destroy him. He rarely deals with anybody, living or dead, you could ever call normal. Characters include: Killer Fido, Darell & Quacky, Gertrude the mean ghost, Andrea (possibly the only normal person he knows), and, everybody's favorite, Rupert!

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What do you get when you combine an over active imagination with a desire to be a tough-guy private eye? Normally you’d just get a typical teenage boy. Now, what do you get when you throw in the ability to see ghosts? That’s correct – you get a scared teenage boy.

Ah, but what do you get when this same teenage boy is very self-confidant and can’t always tell the difference between the way things are and the way he imagines them? You get a scared teenage boy with an amazing ability to get into trouble. At this point all you’d need to add to the mix is an actual ability to figure things out and you’d have Joe Cruncher.

Yep, Joe Cruncher is all these things, and he’s extremely serious about becoming a private investigator. He’s even managed to convince himself his ability to get into ridiculous situations shows he’s cut out for this line of work. Naturally, nobody else would ever draw that conclusion, especially not after seeing the damage he tends to create, but that doesn’t
mean he’s mistaken. All Cruncher needs is a good case and he can prove he’s a great detective.

Fortunately (or unfortunately – depending upon your outlook), a ghost recently brought a case his way. From this point on Joe Cruncher, Private Eye, is on the loose and the folks around him are no longer safe. Can Cruncher solve this case? It's entirely possible. The real question is: Can Cruncher solve this case without destroying the world around him?



Silly question – of course not!