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23) The surrogates
Author
Series
Surrogates volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
24) Bodies
Author
Publisher
DC Comics Black Label
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Four murders. Four detectives. Four eras. One impossible connection. Writer Si Spencer teams up with four different artists, one for each era, to slice open the modern murder mystery and uncover the strange heart within!" -- from publisher.
28) Cruel summer
Author
Series
Criminal volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of '88, Teeg Lawless comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career. But Teeg's son Ricky and his friends are starting down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives."-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows vampires don't really exist, especially Nancy Drew, Girl Detective. As a result of the enormous popularity of the DieLite books and movies, many teens in town suspect that River Heights newest arrival, the mysterious Gregor Coffson, is a real-life vampire. Leave it to Nancy Drew to get to the bottom of a mystery and discover the truth--but will it destroy her friendships with George Fayne, Bess Marvin, and Ned Nickerson? And is Gregor...
Author
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Hired to locate a missing girl, detective Max "Mutt" Mason discovers deeper malignant forces at work. Femmes fatale soon give way to strange creatures older than humanity, all bent on remaking our world as their own. Mason wants answers, but the solution to this mystery may go beyond mere greed and betrayal--leading the detective to the brink of horrifying realms which man was never meant to trespass"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he''s a hell of a detective - as long as he doesn''t mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit and why. He''s been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest,...
Author
Series
Black butler volume 9
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When Queen Victoria's butlers commandeer Phantomhive Manor for a lavish banquet in the name of Her Majesty, Sebastian has no problem with the arrangements, but even the unflappable butler is shaken by the havoc created by the evenings attendees.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood is haunted. 1953. Ghosts abound. In particular, the ghost of Detective Sam Hanniganmurdered in Bay City twenty-two years earlier by Addie Perl, the hired assassin who then bought a Hollywood nightclub with her blood money. Among the nightclubs favored clientele is Sams widow, Elsie. Blinded by a Japanese bullet while on a USO tour in the South Pacific, Elsie has been reinvented into Miss Know-It-All,
Author
Series
Black butler volume 7
Publisher
Yen
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Having successfully infiltrated the Noah's Ark Circus in the guise of rookie performers, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his butler, Sebastian, set about gathering clues backstage as to the whereabouts of the missing children. But when a turn at snooping puts Ciel on the trail of a man whose identity is shrouded in mystery, he sets his consummate manservant to the task of investigating further ..."--Cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"What would the Gotham City of one hundred years ago have been like?. In an age of mystery and superstition, how would the people of Gotham react to a weird creature of the night, a bat-garbed vigilante feared by the guilty and the innocent alike?. Some would live in terror. Others would rest easier. Only one man would take no notice at all, a man with other matters to attend to. His name?. No one knows for sure. Most people know him only as Jack....
Author
Publisher
NBM/ComicsLit
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"New Brunswick, New Jersey, Thursday, September 14, 1922. Reverend Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills take a stroll in the town's park in the evening. Shots are heard. 2 days later, their bodies are found laying on the ground very neatly next to each other...Reverend Hall, himself married, was in an open secret of an affair with Mrs. Mills, a married woman of his choir...Alas, no clues or evidence are sufficient to make an indictment stick...The case reopens...
40) Black butler: 14
Author
Series
Black butler volume 14
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Earl Ciel Phantomhive looks on in horror as Sebastian, his infallible manservant, is struck down by the death scythe of an unforeseen combatant. Devil though he may be, even Sebastian is not immune to the blade of a reaper's scythe. As Sebastian's cinematic record spills forth, the tale of how a devil became a butler to a little lost lord flickers to life in shades of sepia, blood, and ash....".
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