It's difficult to categorize, rate, and review a book about Special Agent Pendergast, especially a short story from his childhood. But I'll try.This story is a Pendergast family story at its best. And the best person to tell the tale is Aloysius Pendergast....The tale involves Aloysius and his younger brother (some would say evil brother) Diogenes, when the family lived in New Orleans. The boys' parents were out of town, and their uncle was staying with them. There was an urban legend about the man who lived in the decrepit house down the block... that this man was the tooth fairy, but not in the kind sense. Children would leave their baby teeth in the copper pot inside the box outside this man's house rather than putting the tooth under their pillows for money. It was said that if you didn't, this Tooth Fairy would extract his vengeance upon you.Of course, to Aloysius Pendergast, even at the tender age of 8, the whole story was bunk - myth - a tale to frighten children. So when his brother, Diogenes, loses a tooth and tells Aloysius he's taking it to the local Tooth Fairy, Aloysius decides to teach his brother a lesson. He retrieves the tooth from the box and tells Diogenes that he's done so. Diogenes panics and cries, telling his brother that the Tooth Fairy will get him. The next day, Diogenes is nowhere to be found. Their uncle is concerned, but Aloysius says that Diogenes is in a sulk. Except that by the next morning, Diogenes still isn't to be found. Now Aloysius is worried. Could the local Tooth Fairy really have taken his brother?===============This tale is macabre, almost mythic-fairy tale, and a journey into the unknown... paranormal? Your call. Fact of fiction? Your call. But it's a tale worthy of the Special Agent Pendergast series...
