Lord Darcy Investigates
9 best books like Lord Darcy Investigates (Randall Garrett): The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant, The Black God's Drums, Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, Nobody Hugs a Cactus, Proper English, I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks, Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth, Jane-Emily, and Witches' Children, By Darkness Forged
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
Some people are born boring. Some live boring. Some even die boring. Fred managed to do all three, and when he woke up as a vampire, he did so as a boring one. Timid, socially awkward, and plagued by self-esteem issues, Fred has never been the adventurous sort.
One fateful night – different from...
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to soar, and her sights are set on securing passage aboard the smuggler airship Midnight Robber. Her ticket: earning Captain Ann-Marie’s trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious...
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
| Author | Donald J. Sobol |
| ISBN | 0553157248 |
I could say that I loved the Encyclopedia Brown series as a kid, but that wouldn't be entirely accurate. I wanted to *be* Encyclopedia Brown. When you're the nerdy kid on your block, and you discover a character who is the smartest kid in school, kind of popular despite that fact, can not only stand up to...
| Author | Carter Goodrich |
| ISBN | 1534400907 |
Celebrated artist and lead character designer of Brave, Ratatouille, and Despicable Me, Carter Goodrich, shows that sometimes, even the prickliest people—or the crankiest cacti—need a little love.
Hank is the prickliest cactus in the entire world. He sits in a pot in a window that faces...
A shooting party at the Earl of Witton’s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton—until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour.
That’s not Pat’s biggest problem. She’s visiting her old friend, the Earl’s heir Jimmy Yoxall—but...
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
| Author | Gina Sheridan |
| ISBN | 1440576246 |
Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!
From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout these pages,...
| Author | Patricia Clapp |
| ISBN | 0688109764 |
"Pish!" says Constance the day the "Mayflower" finally lands in America. Constance longs for her beloved London, but she does her share to help the pilgrim settles fight disease, tame the landscape, and befriend the natives. The village of Plymouth grows as more settlers arrive. Many of the young men...
Jane-Emily, and Witches' Children
| Author | Patricia Clapp |
| ISBN | 0061245011 |
Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.
Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Then...
I seriously don't know how to convey how much I love this book... and Nathan Lowell for writing about Ish, Pip, Al, and the Chief (Magie)!!! This book (born out of NaNoWriMo 2018) is a balm for my heart!
This is the book where Ishmael confronts his inner demons and starts to move forward again. With...
