A teenager dressed in a Henry the Hippo costume paces nervously as an oblivious family comes to take a photo with him. Marge stands there slack-jawed staring at Henry's corpse. A little girl among the tourists announce that he is dead, wrinkling her nose in disgust, leading her to being dragged away by her parents. The children go into a chant to wake him up. The tourists do not understand that Henry is dead, and believe he is simply sleeping. Marge drags Teddy through the crowd at Mbuko Hippo Overlook when they both see that Henry the Hippo, Funjungle's mascot was belly-up dead. However, the dispatcher tells Marge to go to Hippo River because they were getting reports that 'something's wrong there.' Though annoyed that her request for backup had been ignored, Marge drags Teddy over to Hippo River, who hopes for a little excitement. The security guard calls the Headquarters to report Teddy for his prank, speaking in an overly professional tone that makes Teddy suspect that she had seen too many cop movies. Teddy Fitzroy is caught by security guard Marge O'Malley giving the chimpanzees water balloons at Funjungle to defend them from a family that was harrassing a young chimp by pelting it with peanuts. or Henry won't be the only one who's dead. He'd better find the killer behind the hippo homicide fast. and soon Teddy finds himself in jeopardy too. Was it Martin del Gato, FunJungle's head of operations, who hates kids and hates animals even more? Or Pete Thwacker, the exasperated head of PR, who's cleaned up Henry's messes one time too many? The list goes on and on. It turns out Henry was two tons of trouble - and a lot of people wanted him dead.

When the police refuse to take him seriously, Teddy sets out to find the truth - and gets far more than he bargained for. The park claims he died of natural causes, but Teddy suspects foul play.

Henry the Hippo, the beloved mascot of FunJungle, America's newest theme park, has gone belly-up. Teddy Fitzroy has a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail.

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