The hostages are released, and Milo gives Meddy the figurine she introduces herself to the remaining guests and Milo's parents. This provokes Meddy to intimidate Vinge to the point where he shoots her and runs away in terror. Milo refuses to hand it over to Vinge, who pulls a gun on him. The treasure is ultimately a role-playing figurine for the game that Milo and Meddy played, Odd Trails, that Holystone had bought for her. Vinge agrees, and Milo shows him a crystal chandelier that hangs in Greenglass House. After a failed attempt to sneak up on Vinge, Milo makes him a deal: he will show Vinge where the treasure is, if he releases the hostages. The two then realize where Holystone left his final treasure. Vinge then found Addie and she leaned forward to hear his speech, but also fell off a balcony and died. She confirms this and reveals that 34 years prior, a young Vinge was chasing her father when he stumbled and fell off a cliff. Milo then realizes that 'Meddy' is actually the ghost of Addie Whitcher, Holystone's daughter. Milo and Meddy manage to escape and lock themselves in the attic. Vinge takes all of the guests and Milo's parents hostage, because he wants to find the last treasure of Michael 'Doc Holystone' Whitcher, a famous smuggler and owner of Greenglass House before his untimely death. Milo and Meddy's investigation eventually leads them to believe that De Cary Vinge, the first guest to have shown up, is a customs agent, which he confirms in a story he tells. At first, nothing is lost, but then three guests are robbed at once. They find that one of the guests has been entering occupied rooms.

He befriends the cook's younger daughter, Meddy Caraway, and they start a role-playing game campaign to investigate the chart, and learn more about the guests.

Milo believes that the appearance of each of them is not accidental, and their appearances are somehow connected to a nautical chart he found, and the house itself. He knows that no one will come to the inn during the holidays- but on the very first night, one after another, five guests show up to stay at Greenglass House. Milo Pine, the twelve-year-old adopted son of the owners of Greenglass House, an old ramshackle inn, hopes to get some rest during the Christmas holidays. The book hit the New York Times Best Seller list. The novel won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Novel, and was also nominated for the National Book Award and the Andre Norton Award. Greenglass House is a 2014 novel by American writer Kate Milford.

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