The Starlings are one of the teams in the hunt for the 39 Clues.
The Starlings are Cahill triplets that belong to the Ekaterina branch and are one of the nine teams who were hunting for the 39 Clues. Ned, Ted, and Sinead Starling are triplets. Sinead, who is attractive and has long red hair, was Vesper Three. In Nowhere to Run, there is a mention of a Denise Starling too. Debi Ann Peirce is also a Starling.
Family Members[]
Sinead Starling (former traitor)
Eustace Starling
Carla Jones Starling
Deborah Starling Debi Ann Pierce
The Maze of Bones[]
Ned, Ted, and Sinead Starling join the Clue Hunt as Team Four. While in Philadelphia, the Starling triplets are hit by a bomb set by the Holt Family at the Franklin Institute, but it was really meant for Amy and Dan Cahill. The two tried to warn them (thinking the Man in Black set it), but they mockingly ignored them and forced them to give them a head start. As a result, they were knocked out and were out of the clue hunt for a period of time
Into the Gauntlet[]
The Starlings dress in Shakespearean clothes and cause the fight at the performance of Romeo and Juliet.
The Medusa Plot []
Ted is captured by the Vespers and Sinead is at the Command Center. Ned is the only one that escapes from the Vespers.
A King's Ransom[]
Ted is still captured by the Vespers and Sinead is at the Command Center.
Trust No One[]
Sinead is found out to be Vesper three by Evan.
Day of Doom []
Ted, using Morse code by blinking his eyes, tells that "RILEY MCGRATH IS VESPER ONE". Soon Ted along with the other hostages escapes and Sinead is no longer Vesper Three. She turned Cahill again.
Gallery[]
Skills[]
The Starling triplets are very good at inventing and creating new things. Ted is particularly good at drawing blueprints and planning. He invented a helicopter (said in Into the Gauntlet) that could land in places where the current helicopter cannot. Ned is good at coming up with fascinating equations in math and science. Sinead is good at creating gadgets and breaking codes.
Clues Possessed[]
- 0.125 fluid ounces of Iron Solute - Given to all teams in The Maze of Bones
- 0.25 ounces of Zinc- stolen from Bae Oh
- Serum Formula - found in Book 10 during alliance with all other teams
Family[]
- Mrs. Starling
- Frank Starling
- Sinead Starling (former Vesper Three)
- Ted Starling
- Ned Starling
- Flamsteed Starling (dog owned by Ted Starling)
- Denise Starling (mentioned by Aunt Beatrice in Nowhere to Run)
- Deborah Starling/Debi Ann Stapleton/Debi Ann Pierce (revealed in Countdown)
Trivia[]
- In the Franklin Institute, the Starlings were hit by a bomb that the Holts set for Amy and Dan. After that, Ned suffered headaches with such intensity that he cannot focus for a few minutes at a time and Ted could only see light and dark. Sinead had large scars crisscrossing her rib cage and some huge ones covering her arms, but other than that she was fine. The Starlings are the only team that did not give up their Clues to Isabel Kabra in the Gauntlet because Alistair Oh shielded them, saying they only had one Clue and that was stolen from Bae Oh. Outside the Gauntlet, Ted thought of some ideas that could help make the experimental surgeries the doctors offered them safer and had Reagan draw them up for him.
- Sinead Starling was Vesper Three, the mole. Her brothers were protected by the Vespers since Sinead was a Vesper, as seen in her former point of view in Trust No One. But they were not protected because Vesper One led to use Sinead.