Geronimo Stilton

When a pair of extremely rare Shufongfong lizards are stolen from the New Mouse City Museum, Geronimo suspects that the visiting Prince Nogouda is the culprit. Geronimo’s suspicions take our heroes deep into the savage Bandel Jungle where they learn that rare lizards are not the only thing that the Prince is interested in adding to his collection.

Time and time again Geronimo is scooped by The Daily Rat, a rival news organization. Despite his best efforts, any secrets Geronimo has seem to get leaked. When Geronimo is given the task of keeping New Mouse City's super-secret celebrity a secret for the city's 100 year celebration, Geronimo finds it a tough mission to keep. It turns out that Geronimo is being careless with his notes and tossing everything into the trash without shredding them first... Sally, owner of The Daily Rat, is getting her info out of Geronimo's trash.

Geronimo gets invited to visit the set of an action movie by his long-time director friend. Thinking that this will make a great story, Geronimo and company go to the shoot. But then a mysterious string of bad luck keeps befalling the movie shoot. Turns out that the film's star has discovered gold in the mine that they're shooting in, and wants to keep everyone away and the gold for himself.

At the New Mouse City Museum strange things are happening, there are reports of a mummy walking around the Museum at night and even during the day, frightening visitors. Certain that there's a logical explanation to all this Geronimo agrees to do a story to PROVE that there's no mummy. It turns out there is a mummy walking around, but it's really a famous thief named “Shadow” who is behind it all.

In an effort to create a big story for her news agency, Sally (owner of The Daily Rat) makes up a story about herself being kidnapped by the notorious mobster, Barry the Moustache, in the hopes of tricking Geronimo into saving her and making him look foolish. But when the real Barry the Moustache shows up, both Sally and Geronimo find themselves in trouble.

Geronimo seems to be acting out of character, and getting blamed for all sorts of bad things that he swears he never did! After investigating, our heroes discover that Sally has hired a Geronimo look-alike, “ Tortelius Strudel ”, to ruin Geronimo’s reputation. Geronimo decides to beat Sally at her own game and passes himself off as Tortelius and foils her plans.