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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
A self-proclaimed sock detective inside her parents' New York City laundromat, 10-year-old Magnolia Wu and Iris, a new friend from California, set off across the city to solve the mystery of each missing sock, meeting people and uncovering the unimaginable along the way.
Author
Series
Clueless McGee volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters to his father, a private investigator, fifth-grader PJ "Clueless" McGee tells of his efforts to discover who stole macaroni and cheese from the school cafeteria.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
In this fourth book of Timmy Failure's memoirs, Timmy is forced to take his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago. They are on the road in a cross-country trip that includes Timmy's mom, Total the polar bear, Doorman Dave, and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins. It's a world gone mad, where good becomes bad, and Timmy Failure is a condemned man.
Author
Series
Sean Rosen books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sean continues to work on his screenplay while juggling seventh grade, track practice, a dog-walking job, recording his podcasts, and trying to keep his movie idea a secret from his parents and a private detective sent by a Hollywood movie studio.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old private investigator Fletcher Moon, nicknamed "Half Moon" because of his shortness, must track down a conspiracy or be framed for a crime he did not commit.
Fletcher Moon is a very bright kid who gets his certification for detective work but he gets framed by a crime family so he really has to work to clear his name.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Meet Dino Detective and Awesome Possum: the sister-and-brother duo who are on the hunt for the next big case! Designed to engage early readers, this story combines charming characters with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids' confidence and create lifelong readers!
Author
Series
SpongeBob SquarePants mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star are back for a new middle-grade mystery filled with ghosts, superheroes, and Bikini Bottom's most dangerous creatures!
10) The candy mafia
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a city where candy is illegal and sugar is scandalous, 12-year-old detective Nelle Faulker takes the case of a candy gangster's missing teddy bear before her client's own disappearance leads Nelle to a shady underworld of sweets smuggling, back-alley deals and storefront firebombs.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mack Rhino-a private detective, who just happens to be a rhinoceros-investigates foul play at the fair in this third mystery of this silly, fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book series that's perfect for emerging readers! Mack Rhino is a private eye whose latest case finds him at the Coral Cove Fair, where someone has been winning game after game after game, taking all the prizes! It's up to Mack to figure out if the winning streak is a case of fair-or...
12) Gargantis
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the second fantasy set in Eerie-on-Sea, Herbert and Violet team up to solve the mystery of Gargantis--an ancient creature of the deep with the power to create life-threatening storms.
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 10
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After watching a movie about a detective on the television, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator--and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Timmy is in Key West, Florida, ostensibly for the honeymoon of his mother and Doorman Dave - if they even got married, which Timmy doubts. Unfortunately for Timmy, crime doesn't take a vacation. And because Total has fled to Cuba seeking political asylum, Timmy must rely on a new partner for help: Doorman Dave's nephew Emilio. Meanwhile, a surprise newcomer shows up in Timmy's life and, as if things couldn't get more hectic, Timmy's pants have been...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Changelings do it all, from mediating underworld backroom deals to tackling a bad case of lovesickness. Now, while raising the baby dragon they accidentally hatched, the faerie Jack Flash and her human brother Larry take on some new cases. But of course, none of them will go as planned!
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Me llamo De Sastre. Timmy De Sastre. Soy el fundador, presidente y consejero delegado de la mejor agencia de detectives de la ciudad, probablemente de toda la nación. El libro que tenéis en vuestras manos es un relato histórico de mi vida como detective. Todos los datos que recoge están contrastados. Todos los dibujos que lleva los he hecho yo. Intenté que mi socio Total hiciera las ilustraciones, pero no eran buenas.
Meet Timmy Failure, founder...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lyalls debut is a winner. Publishers Weekly Whats with the get-up? Is that the company uniform or something? This? All P.I.s wear a trench coat. Dude, thats a brown bathrobe. I shrugged and straightened out my sleeves. First rule of private investigation, Ivy: work with what youve got. Twelve-year-old Howard Wallace lives by his list of rules of private investigation. He knows more than anyone how to work with what hes got: a bathrobe for a trench...
18) Smooth operator
Author
Series
Teddy Fay novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When President Kate Lee calls Stone Barrington to Washington on an urgent matter, it's soon clear that a potentially disastrous situation requires the kind of help more delicate than even he can provide. and he knows just the right man for the job. Teddy Fay: ex-CIA, master of disguise, and a gentleman not known for abiding by legal niceties in the pursuit of his own brand of justice"--
19) Malamander
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she's sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person who can help her find them. The trouble is, Violet is being...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 39
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington takes on a client who gives him a run for his money in the newest heart-stopping thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Fresh off the runway at Teterboro, Stone Barrington arrives home to find an unexpected new client on his doorstep, anxiously soliciting his help. But everything is not as it seems, when the client reveals the true nature--and value--of his recent turn of fortune. From luxury New York high-rises...
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