Michael Murphy

When city residents hire a bus to bring them on a tour of coastal roads, one of the passengers dies suddenly. The driver suspects that the passengers are keeping secrets about the dead man.

Adventures of two orphaned brothers, Tim and Taylor, whose parents were killed by a tornado in the Gulf of Mexico. The brothers meet Clancy, an old circus hand, who was driving a bus. Aboard the bus was a menagerie including a pig, a pelican and a sea lion named Salty. Clancy adopts the two boys and takes them to his home, a marina.