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In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.

The ten peculiar children from Miss Peregrine's home have fled, following Jacob Portman, to London, hoping to find a way to free Miss Peregrine from the bird body she is trapped in.

After his friend Will, a pickpocket in London in 1715, is murdered as part of a series of mysterious deaths, fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe asks his friend Dr.

Archie Wiggins and the other members of the Raven League are thrilled when they meet Buffalo Bill Cody himself, but when a policeman is attacked and Buffalo Bill is the prime suspect, the Raven League vows to prove Bill's innocence.

Fourteen-year-old Nick and his brother, an ineffectual private detective, try to prevent the threatened murder of an international pop star in London at Christmas time.

Barnaby Grimes, a boy who collects and delivers information throughout Victorian London, faces his biggest challenge yet when he is confronted by a horde of living corpses.

Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.

London scholar and murderer Edward Glyver makes his confession about how he sought revenge on Phoebus Rainsford Daunt, the man he believed responsible for everything wrong in his life, especially a missed chance at a large inheritance.

A master criminal plots and carries out the robbery of gold bullion being sent by train from London to Paris in supposedly invulnerable safes.

While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth.

Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves.

Fifty-three-year-old Charles Dickens, having escaped death during a train accident, momentarily meets a ghoulish figure named Drood and sets out with his friend Wilkie Collins into the nightmarish world of the slums and catacombs of London to uncover the mystery surrounding the figure.

Scotland Yard Detective Herbert Smith investigates a suspicious death of a young man found in the icy waters of Long Water, and finds himself involved with the CIA, KGB, and MI5 in a race to unravel the secrets the dead biochemist held.

Brought to London under mysterious circumstances by his tutor, a young boy seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes when his tutor is kidnapped and he himself is threatened with the same fate.

When Andrew returns to London from boarding school, he becomes embroiled in several mysteries involving stolen jewels and the disappearance of a corpse after a brutal murder.