Island of Doom

8 best books like Island of Doom (Arthur Slade): Beastly Bones, The Inventor's Secret, Asterix the Gaul, The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School, Ghostly Echoes, Lycans and Legends: A Steampunk Fairy Tale, The Dire King, The Conjurer's Riddle

Beastly Bones
AuthorWilliam Ritter
ISBN1616203544
I've found very little about private detective R. F. Jackaby to be standard in the time I've known him. Working as his assistant tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality . . .

In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail...
The Inventor's Secret
AuthorAndrea Cremer
There is an alternate cover edition for this edition here.

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth they have their health (at least when they can find enough food...
Asterix the Gaul
AuthorRené Goscinny
ISBN0752866052

A kindred spirit...


Family portrait.


Sport/recreation/favorite pastime.

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For those not familiar with the Asterix comics, let me give you a bit of background, both personal and general.

Let me start with Julius Caesar.
We...
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
AuthorKim Newman
ISBN1781165726
A week after Mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians....
Ghostly Echoes
AuthorWilliam Ritter
ISBN1616205792
Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly lady of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the investigative services of her fellow residents to solve a decade-old murder—her own. Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, Detective R. F. Jackaby, dive into the cold case, starting with a search for Jenny’s fiancé, who...
Lycans and Legends: A Steampunk Fairy Tale
AuthorMelanie Karsak
Someone is trying to assassinate the Queen.

After stopping a mysterious preternatural assailant wielding an enchanted dagger, Clemeny is on the hunt. Why is someone after Victoria? To find answers, Clemeny Louvel must travel to the one place she’s been avoiding, the Summer Country. Among...
The Dire King
AuthorWilliam Ritter
ISBN1616207620
The fate of the world is in the hands of detective of the supernatural R. F. Jackaby and his intrepid assistant, Abigail Rook. An evil king is turning ancient tensions into modern strife, using a blend of magic and technology to push Earth and the Otherworld into a mortal competition. Jackaby and Abigail...
The Conjurer's Riddle
AuthorAndrea Cremer
ISBN0399164243
Charlotte may have left the Floating City, but she’s not out of danger yet. On the run from the British Empire’s clutches, she leads her group of exiles west and south, plunging into a wild world of shady merchants and surly rivermen on the way to New Orleans.

But the more Charlotte learns...
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