Jack (a human boy) and elfin Tashi are back, and ancient treasuries and treacheries are the themes in Tashi and the Royal Tomb by Anna Fienberg and Barbara Fienberg, illus. by Kim Gamble. As the volume begins, Tashi relates a tale of some burial grounds excavated in his homeland; he receives help from long-dead spirits to escape capture by the Baron. Jack then relates a story of Tashi's investigation of the culprit who has stolen his village's book of healing spells.