The Boy Detective Fails

✍ Scribed by Meno, Joe

• Book ID: 110481501
• Publisher: Akashic
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781936070497

✦ Synopsis

In this "charming" and melancholic novel, a former child sleuth "investigates the hard-to-crack case of Lost Innocence" (Entertainment Weekly).

A Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist Book of the Year

In the twilight of a mysterious childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at St. Vitus' Hospital for the Mentally Ill to discover the world full of unimaginable strangeness: office buildings vanish without reason, small animals turn up without their heads, and cruel villains ride city buses to complete their evil schemes.

Lost within this unwelcoming place, Billy befriends two lonely, extraordinary children—one a science fair genius, the other a charming, silent bully. With a nearly forgotten bravery, he...
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