Mitchell, J. Barton

Everyone knows that Poe created the detective genre, but did you know he was a detective himself? Finally the secret can be revealed for the first time! Enter the world of Poe and follow the famous author of darkness as he delves into the dark side of man. As he tracks the killer of his brother's friend, Poe must rescue his brother and his brother's wife from The Red Death! But when The Red Death offers to bring Poe's wife Virginia back to life in exchange, will Poe make the right choice?.

Holt, Mira, and Max, having fled Midnight City with Zoey after watching her repel an entire Assembly army, head for the Severed Tower, a place with a dangerous landscape, in the Strange Lands, and the closer they get to the Tower, the more dangerous things become.

Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as The Assembly and the human adult population is gone. The Tone, a powerful telepathic signal that reduces adults to total subservience, has taken them. But The Tone has a flaw: it only affects humans once they reach their early twenties. There is one group left to resist, the children, and Holt Hawkins plans to take every advantage of this.