Claudia의 생활은 언제나 따분하기만 하다. 커다란 변화를 맞을 준비가 되어있다고 판단한 Claudia 는 도망가기로 결심하고 구체적인 계획을 세운다. 남동생 Jamie를 끌여들여 Metropolita Museum of Art 를 목적지로 정하게 되고, 그렇지만 이들은 전문가들도 풀지못한 예술의 미스테리에 연루된다. 이 미스테리의 해답을 찾는 도중 Claudia는 자신이 궁금해 하던 답을 얻게 되는데..
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg's beloved classic and Newbery Medal--winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler! When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort-she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because be was a miser and would have money.
Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie bad some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she bad discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too.
The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her--well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.