detective and mystery stories

Publisher Annotation: Timmy Failure is not just any detective-he is the greatest detective in his town, perhaps the nation. He is so famous that there have been seven books written about his life. Plus a movie. And so he has agreed to provide the world with his extraordinary origin story, as dictated to his biographer and best friend, Charles "Rollo" Tookus. New York Times best-selling author Stephan Pastis is back with the hilariously heartwarming tale of how it all started for our favorite clueless detective-including how he got that red scarf!.

Mrs. Roosevelt once again dons her cap as an amateur sleuth when a passenger on board the Normandie dies from strychnine poisoning.

Financial whiz Andrew Falcon agrees to handle the hostile takeover of a chemical company in anticipation of a fat fee, but he belatedly learns that he is the pawn of a secret group of power-brokers, The Sevens, who are more than ready to kill him for the knowledge he now holds.

While investigating suspicious happenings at her friend's parents' Chinese restaurant, Brooklyn's greatest detective, fourth grader Penina "Pinky" Bloom, solves the mystery of recently stolen artifacts from the Jewish Museum.

A madman wages a terrifying campaign to eliminate mystery writer Marty Stillwater when he claims he's the real Marty Stillwater.

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum stirs up a very nasty enemy, and attracts the attention of sexy vice cop Joe Morelli, when she sets out to find Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton who has just shot his best friend.

Miss Marple helps a young couple solve a murder that had occurred eighteen years earlier.

One of the very respectable guests at the festive Hallowe'en party must have committed murder--someone who had a nasty shock from Joyce's revelation.