The 3-2-3 Detective Agency In The Disappearance Of Dave Warthog
Five animal friends decide to form a detective agency in Whiska City, where they investigate the rash of disappearances linked to a poodle beauty salon.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: animals, private detectives, missing persons [X], private investigators [X], comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels
The Girl Is Murder
In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: interpersonal relations, fathers and daughters, private investigators [X], missing persons [X], social classes, new york (n.y.), detectives
When We Were Orphans
Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
The Rose Queen
New Yorkers Sam and Sophie Shattenberg create new lives and new identities in Venice, Indiana, and get involved in solving missing persons' cases while trying to stay missing themselves.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Chocolate Lover
Sisters Sophie and Sam Shattenberg, teenage private investigators from Queens living incognito in Indiana, take the case of a fifty-years-missing chocolate-loving woman and try to determine if the man searching for her is one of their relatives without revealing their identities.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Kiss Of Death
Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big-time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some dates.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
Head Games
Retired police detective Mike Garrity fears spending his last few months alone after learning he has a fatal, inoperable brain tumor, until an old colleague offers Mike the chance to make an impact, leave his daughter with an inheritance, and earn her respect, even if it means risking what little is left of his own life.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Venetian Policeman
Sisters Sam and Sophie Shattenberg have changed their names and appearance and are taking lessons in crime solving from detective friend, Gus Jenkins, but when Gus's son, Jack, disappears, the duo sets out to solve the mystery.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Boundary Waters
Former sheriff Cork O'Connor reluctantly agrees to lead a search party to look for Shiloh, a country-western singer who has disappeared into the Quetico-Superior Wilderness on the Canadian/American border, not realizing the young woman is also being hunted by hired men who want her dead.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: o'connor, cork (fictitious character), private investigators [X], wilderness areas, missing persons [X], o'connor, cork (fictional character), quetico-superior country (ont. and minn.), minnesota
Private Berlin
IN EUROPE'S MOST DANGEROUS CITY Chris Schneider is a superstar agent at Private Berlin, Germany headquarters for the world's most powerful investigation firm.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Dirty Work
Gulliver Dowd, a private investigator, takes on a missing persons case when he learns that the runaway girl is his own child--the product of a high school romance.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450
The Prince Of Venice Beach
Robert "Cali" Callahan, seventeen, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found--and with falling in love with one of them.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: venice (los angeles, calif.), private investigators [X], homeless persons, missing persons [X], runaway teenagers, venice (los angeles, calif.)
Lost Cat
"[B]oth a ... take on the classic detective story, and a story about how difficult it is to find a sister spirit, someone you feel a real connection to-- and what do you do if you lose that person?"--From publisher's web site.
741.5
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
Last Of The Independents
"Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons -- only, as Mike has discovered, some missing people stay with you.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Righteous
"Isaiah Quintabe has built a proper life for himself: respected in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fiction / literary, fiction / suspense, fiction / cultural heritage, fiction / crime, murder, missing persons [X], private investigators [X], los angeles (calif.), thrillers (fiction), detective and mystery fiction