Death in the Air
10 best books like Death in the Air (Shane Peacock): The Case of the Left-Handed Lady, The Mystery of the Third Lucretia, Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction, The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, The Giant-Slayer, Betrayal, Montmorency On The Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer?, Jolted: Newton Starker's rules for survival, Eldest (Part B): Inheritance, Book II, Stone Cold
| Author | Nancy Springer |
| ISBN | 0399245170 |
Enola's name backwards spells "alone," and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest city. She is being hunted down by the world's most famous detective - her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. For the sake of freedom she must elude him, but what can she do to ease her loneliness?
When...
| Author | Susan Runholt |
| ISBN | 0670062529 |
If it hadn't been for Lucas's photographic memory, they might not have remembered the man. It had been almost a year since she and Kari had noticed him copying the famous Rembrandt painting in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. But now in the National Gallery in London, they're sure it's the same guy,...
Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction
| Author | Kevin Sylvester |
| ISBN | 1554703298 |
Fresh off his success in solving the Marco Polo murders, Neil Flambe heads to Mexico City to take part in the Azteca Cocina -- a two-week battle of the chefs. But things start to go wrong at the very first battle. Neil's box of secret ingredients contains more than he bargained for. There's a note inside,...
| Author | Tracy Mack |
| ISBN | 0439828368 |
Mysteries are the next big thing! This is a new spin on the most famous detective stories of all time, focusing on the kids who helped Sherlock Holmes solve mysteries and save England from doom.
Sherlock Holmes stories captured readers' imaginations for more than a century. Now Tracy Mack and...
| Author | Iain Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0385733763 |
A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.
The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn...
| Author | Grace Cavendish |
| ISBN | 0385731523 |
I'm hooked. Grace has fun. Her diary "Dayebooks" go the extra mile in smaller size with scratchy quill font phrases. Titles are single word plot summaries.
Since I was mistaken for a boy even as a long-haired blonde teen, I enjoy stories where such mis-identification is sought on purpose, and...
| Author | Eleanor Updale |
| ISBN | 0439606772 |
Montmorency -- the man leading a double life, torn between his two identities -- returns in this gripping sequel to MONTMORENCY: THIEF, LIAR, GENTLEMAN?
Five years after giving up his life of crime in the London sewers, Montmorency is back. But his evil alter ego, Scarper, has returned too,...
| Author | Arthur Slade |
| ISBN | 0006395694 |
The Starker family is infamous. They’ve been chronicled on blogs, profiled on TV and researched by paranormal investigators. They appear to be cursed: everyone of Starker blood has died after being struck by lightning. Fourteen-year-old Newton Starker is the last of his line—except for his...
Eldest (Part B): Inheritance, Book II
| Author | Christopher Paolini |
| ISBN | 0307284530 |
Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…
Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills...
3.5 really... Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy this alot but it's not the BEST of the series and not the worst either.
I loved seeing Matty and Sherlock solving a crime and working things out together again, they make quite the pair. Different dynamic of course than John and Sherlock, though I think...
| Author | Tracy Barrett |
| ISBN | 0805083413 |
Xena and Xander have been looking forward to their vacation in the peaceful country village of Blackslope. But when a huge monster begins to terrorize the town, the young detectives are faced with a mystery that seems impossible to solve.
Sherlock Holmes, Xena and Xander's famous ancestor,...
