Books with title The Barking Detective Agency

When detective John retires from the Detective Agency, Katy Cheung decides to audition for the job. She could think of a thousand reasons why she'd be perfect for the job. If only her annoying brother Charlie would stop getting in the way! Will Katy's mother let her audition? Will everything go according to plan? Will she get there on time and will she get the job? Getting Into the Detective Agency is written by Allison Lee, a 4th grade student who enjoys math, musical theatre, and writing scripts for friends to act out just for fun. She recently discovered that not everyone enjoys doing math tests during play dates. She loves books, travel, and especially ice-cream with rainbow sprinkles.

<p>Mouseville is a unique town in which cats and owls don’t chase mice and rats. In fact, cats, mice, foxes, owls, flying squirrels, and raccoons all live in harmony. However, one thing the animals have in common with the human populace is greed. Sometimes, even animals want something somebody else has, and some of them don’t want to pay for it.</p> <p>Enter the M&amp;C Detective Agency, owned by two mouse friends, Murray and Cathy. They take on the crooks of Mouseville and Rattown with confidence. Whether searching for stolen cheese or solving a bank robbery, the M&amp;C detectives always get their man, er, cat! A problem at the circus, a mystery at the baseball game, missing diamonds, and even a great train robbery cannot deter the mouse detectives. </p> <p>The sleuths drive a bright, yellow Mousemobile convertible. They are well known around town, especially to the chief of police, who often calls on them for help. The mouse detectives turn even the most challenging case into a bit of fun, and the celebration of success always takes the form of a picnic with their friends.</p>

A rather silly detective story in the spirit of Jasper Fforde. Harry Pigg, the only surviving brother from the Big Bad Wolf attacks, has set up business as a private detective in Grimmtown, only things aren't going too well. Down on his luck, with bills to pay and no clients in sight the outlook is poor. But then in walks local businessman Aladdin who needs someone to help him track down an old lamp. What follows is a case of nursery rhyme-noir. Funny, thrilling and always entertaining, Harry Pigg is an old breed of hero for a new generation. It's as if Humphrey Bogart or James Cagney had walked into the middle of a bedtime story. A comedy caper for all ages. The first in a major new series.

Pop quiz: What would you do if you had to solve your own murder to get anywhere in death?Maybe if I hadn't slept through my alarm, slammed into Kristin—my high school's reigning mean girl—or stepped in a puddle, destroying my mom's new suede DVF boots (which I borrowed without asking), I wouldn't have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I wouldn't have been pushed in front of that arriving train. But I did, and I was.When I came to, I was informed by a group of girls that I'm dead. And that because I died under mysterious circumstances, I can't pass straight over to the Other Side. But at least I'm not alone. Meet the Dead Girls Detective Agency: Nancy, Lorna, and Tess—not to mention Edison, the really cute if slightly hostile dead boy. Apparently, the only way out of this limbo is to figure out who killed me, or I'll have to spend eternity playing Nancy Drew. Considering I was fairly invisible in life, who could hate me enough to want me dead? And what if my murderer is someone I never would have suspected?

Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town; short on friends and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher, she spends her free time in the Sticksville Cemetery and it isn’t long before she befriends the ghosts of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. Using October’s smarts and the ghosts’ abilities to walk through walls and roam around undetected, they form the Dead Kid Detective Agency, a group committed to solving Sticksville’s most mysterious mysteries. So when the high school’s beloved French teacher dies in a suspicious car accident, it provides the agency with its first bona fide case, putting them in the midst of a murder plot thick with car chases, cafeteria fights, and sociopathic math teachers, and sending them on an adventure that might just uncover the truth about a bomb that exploded 40 years ago.

Veronica Mars meets The Lying Game, The Dead Girls Detective Agency follows Charlotte Feldman, a teenage girl who must solve the mystery of how and why she was murdered if she wants to escape purgatory. The basis for the new Snapchat series!What would you do if you had to solve your own murder to get anywhere in death?Maybe if I hadn't slept through my alarm, slammed into Kristin—my high school's reigning mean girl—or stepped in a puddle, destroying my mom's new suede DVF boots (which I borrowed without asking), I wouldn't have been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I wouldn't have been pushed in front of that arriving train. But I did, and I was.When I came to, I was informed by a group of girls that I'm dead. And that because I died under mysterious circumstances, I can't pass straight over to the Other Side. But at least I'm not alone.Meet the Dead Girls Detective Agency: Nancy, Lorna, and Tess—not to mention Edison, the really cute if slightly hostile dead boy. Apparently the only way out of this limbo is to figure out who killed me, or I'll have to spend eternity playing Nancy Drew. Considering I was fairly invisible in life, who could hate me enough to want me dead?And what if my murderer is someone I never would have suspected?