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...

The charmed bracelet: Nancy receives a mysterious charm bracelet in the mail, and soon a crime is committed for each charm. Can Nancy find out who the culprit is? Global warming: The new Bio-Dome facility in River Heights is set to open, until the legendary Okala Kane, Sasquatch, and Yeti show up and sabotage the dome's environments. Where did they come from, and why are the trying to destroy these environments?

"When the Aldens visit their cousins, they're in for a surprise-- there's an amusement park nearby! It has everything they could ask for, with plenty of rides and games. But the children see strange lights coming from the closed park at night. And then a mysterious phone call warns them to stay away! Just what is going on at the amusement park?"--P. [4] of cover.

The Creeps are in trouble, again. When rule breaking during one of their investigations lands the detectives in "service detention," the four friends find themselves lugging pumpkins off a foreclosed pumpkin patch. To thank them for their service, Sheriff Obie allows each Creep to take home a pumpkin to carve into a jack-o-lantern. Bad idea. Once carved, the jack-o-lanterns come to life--and attack everyone within reach! It turns out the pumpkins...

Stranded in the woods, Conan and his friends take shelter at a spooky old house only to witness a seemingly supernatural murder. The knife-wielding old lady who lives there couldn't be a witch, could she? Then Conan finds a lead in his ongoing investigation of Eisuke, Rachel's suspicious new friend. But by the time he gets there the information is missing. To get the facts, Conan has to solve the crime!

"Romance, mystery, and evil fill the halls of an old gothic mansion in New England. There's only one person in the world that can bring peace to this place: Boston Brand, a.k.a., Deadman! When a ghost cannot rest in the place that holds her, the DCU's authority on all things supernatural must help before all is lost! In this tale that evokes tension tension of classic romance comics as well as supernatural superhero storytelling, DEADMAN: DARK MANSION...

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with WingsWhen a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar...

Batman faces his greatest villain yet as he battles to keep the streets of Gotham City safe from the Joker and his evil plans.

"In the wake of the 1989 earthquake, Ethan takes a trip to San Francisco to search for a missing woman. But almost immediately he finds himself going down a path of darkness and murder in her wake, in a case unlike anything he's faced before"--

The mystery deepens... As the reclusive and troubled young man Norton becomes more immersed in his quest for the secret of the legendary Black Barn, washed-up Catholic priest Father Fred unravels the secret behind a series of grisly murders.