Eddie Hodges

Set in Miami Beach, the story is of a soft hearted but hardboiled widower, father of an eleven year old boy, who is considered by his stuffy brothers and sister-in-law to be a black sheep, ne'er-do-well. Faced with failure, the family tries to have the father hand over the son to thier care.

Mark Twain's boy hero rafts down the Mississippi river with slave Jim and meets a bogus king and duke.