Man Bites Dog

When Satan, a territorial Doberman pinscher, winds up dead, Steven, a young mailman, turns amateur detective in order to clear his name in this comic mystery novel. Coping with 20-something, post-college angst, he fumbles his way through his first love and his first career with the help of his Murder She Wrote–addicted best friend, Gina. The book also features original comic strip art by the author interspersed throughout the text.

A Cat With no Clue

by Lydia Adamson
For an anniversary present, actress and amateur sleuth Alice Nestleton gifts elderly actor friends Alex and Lila with a meal that is exactly like the one they shared on their first date. But the next day the couple is dead from food poisoning. The only witnesses are the couple's two kittens, so Alice becomes the prime suspect!

Boy Detectives: Essays on the Hardy Boys and Others

Much has been written about the girl sleuth in fiction, a feminist figure embodying all the potential wit and drive of girlhood. Her male counterpart, however, has received much less critical attention despite his popularity in the wider culture. This collection of eleven essays examines the boy detective and his genre from a number of critical perspectives, addressing the issues of these young characters, heirs to the patriarchy yet still concerned with first crushes and soda shop romances. Series explored include the Hardy Boys, Tow Swift, the Three Investigators, Christopher Cool and Tim Murphy, as well as works by Astrid Lindgren, Mark Haddon, and Joe Meno.

The Kids' College Almanac: A First Look At College

Signed, Mata Hari: A Novel

In life, at least before the espionage charges, it was Mata Hari's body that made her mesmerizing; in this alluring novel, it is her hypnotic voice. As softly poetic as it is insistent, it entices the reader from the first lines to give Mata Hari what she always craved: not the secrets that are the currency of a spy, but the rapt attention that is oxygen to a performer.