Stroud, Jonathan

Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.

Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar.

Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.

Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice learning traditional arts. But one day he has an encounter with Simon Lovelace, a ruthless magician who humiliates Nathaniel in public...and sparks the embers of revenge.

Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.

While seeking the treasure of Captain Blood, Mam Spamme and her rowdy pirates tangle with Red Roger, the wicked Governor of Chutney Island. At various points in the story, the reader is asked to solve a picture puzzle.

Bartimaeus, a wise-cracking djinni, finds himself in the tenth century and at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master and a sinister servant, and gets into trouble with King Solomon's magic ring.