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On his last day on the job, retiring policeman Hartigan gets a call that a serial murderer and rapist has an 11-year-old girl in his clutches. In the process of saving her, he uncovers something really, really bad that may just end his career with a bang.

"Nicholas Fart toppled from his chair, rolled across the carpet, and passed out cold on the floor after smelling something foul. It was the perfect crime. Never fear! Penelope Whiff is on the case, and she is sure to get to the bottom of this who-dealt-it mystery. Can she sniff out the source of the nasty, PUTRID smell"--provided by publisher.

"As Kyouka fights her past demons, the threat of a three-way war between the Armed Detective Agency, the Guild, and the Port Mafia looms. With each side fortifying their defenses, who will seize the initiative and land the first crushing blow? After an attack by the Guild's fellowcrafts, the Agency's chances for survival might just be gone with the wind ..."--Page 4 of cover.

"Shrouded in fog, the ability users of Yokohama are forced to fight against their own abilities. Akutagawa, eager to fight Rashomon, waits for his chance to strike. Meanwhile, Atsushi grows hesitant at the thought of facing Beast Beneath the Moonlight..."--

Readers can help the great detective Batman and his sidekicks solve riddles, analyze evidence, look for clues, and spot solutions to mysteries before he logs them into his casebook.

"At Takeru's first game at a real golf course, he has the fortune of meeting Hanabusa, a pro golfer who has just won the Japan Masters. He agrees to play a round with Takeru and his father. Little do they know he is there for more than a game of golf"--Back cover.

Laurent Thierry needs con artist Edamura Makoto's help to pull off a huge scam that will make them both rich.

Unsinkable detectives Mango and Brash are back in InvestiGators: All Tide Up, a high seas adventure that takes the hit series by John Patrick Green to uncharted waters! When a cruise captain is found drifting at sea and delirious, the search begins for his missing ship and passengers! Did it sink? Was it boat-napped?

Eighty-nine-year-old Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale that dares "to try things that film noir could only dream of" (Chris Ware). In The Ghost Script, Feiffer plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts and Reds and pinkos and starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind, the renamed "Cousin Joseph," running a back-channel clearinghouse for victims...

Dwight owes the Old Town girls a favor. So when one of them is shot during a mob kill, Dwight and the assassin Miho step in to find her killers and help her lover get revenge.