Dead Boy Detectives

Perched somewhere between the now and nevermore the DEAD BOY DETECTIVES will take on any and all mysteries including their own untimely deaths!

Rowland and Paine, the dead British teenagers who first appeared in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Season of Mists, travel stateside to investigate a strange missing persons case at a posh International Academy for Girls.

"Dead boy detectives created by Neil Gaiman."

Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town; she spends her free time in the Sticksville Cemetery and it isn't long before she befriends the ghosts of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. They form the Dead Kid Detective Agency, a group committed to solving Sticksville's most mysterious mysteries.

Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren confronts the strangest case of her career in this exclusive eBook short story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner. A USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestseller! D. D. Warren was pretty sure she'd seen it all. Then a man walks into police headquarters, attempting desperately to convince the squad that he's dead. Explaining to him that he's very much alive, they finally send him on his way...and then hours later, he turns up actually dead. And it's on D. D. Warren to figure out how and why the dead man died...twice. Plus: An early look at Gardner's next riveting thriller, Never Tell.

Neil Gaiman's inimitable sleuths from The Sandman: Season of Mists star in their own manga-style book from acclaimed creator Jill Thompson (Death: At Death's Door) Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, the dead British teenagers who are always on the run from Death, travel stateside to solve a missing persons case. For Rowland and Paine to investigate the case properly, they decide to enroll as students at the school the missing girl went to. And since it's an all-girls academy, the duo is forced to go undercover - in drag This all-new, full-colour graphic novel, written and drawn in the enormously popular shojo (girls' comic) manga style, will greatly appeal to female - and male - readers

A manga digest, printed in black, white, and gray tones, featuring appearances by Sandman and all his siblings. In an original story that parallels the events of SANDMAN: SEASON OF MIST, the minions of Hell end up in Death's apartment. Sisters Delirium and Despair decide to throw a party for the dead „ which quickly gets out of control. It's up to Dream's older sister Death to figure out how to save the day and the afterlife...not to mention the carpet. - See more at: http://www.vertigocomics.com/graphic-novels/death-at-deaths-door#sthash.n4kVDERt.dpuf