The third in a contemporary series just like Encyclopedia Brown, but with a little more brawn, and a lot more brainteasers! Super-sleuth Charlie Collier is thinking about taking a hiatus from his detective agency to play a private eye in a school play—but when some real robberies stump the police, Charlie realizes that detective work really is his true calling. He and his sidekicks Henry and Scarlett team up with Charlie’s grandma and her old buddy Eugene to set a trap for the robber—one they’re sure will catch him. But the trap doesn’t work out quite the way they thought it would, leaving Charlie, Henry and Scarlett in grave danger. This high-stakes adventure is filled to the brim with brainteasers. Charlie can solve them all—can you? What people are saying about Charlie Collier's first caper: “I loved reading The Homemade Stuffing Caper. The mystery is challenging. The many characters in the book are great fun. I look forward to reading the next Charlie Collier story, and the next, and the next, and the . . .”—David A. Adler, author of the Cam Jansen mysteries “The Homemade Stuffing Caper is an exciting mystery, full of jokes and puns, as well as brainteasers and lots of detective work. This may be the first mystery you don’t want the detective to solve, because you won’t want it to end!”—Bookpage “Brisk and absorbing, author John Madormo’s debut tips its fedora to hard-boiled classics with its ‘sixth-grader meets Sam Spade’ narration.”—FamilyFun Magazine “With mysteries to solve, codes to decrypt, and an extended cast of colorful characters in tow, this first in a new series offers lots of mystery fans to chew on and will leave them hungry for the next installment.”—Booklist A Bookpage Top Ten Summer Reading Selection for 2012

Encyclopedia Brown, watch out! Charlie Collier can match you mystery for mystery! Seventh grader Charlie Collier has always been able to solve brain teasers in no time at all. And his favorite books have always been mysteries. So when Charlie dons his father's old trench coat--the one his mother thought she brought to Goodwill--and a fedora that should have suffered the same fate, he thinks solving mysteries will be as easy as pie. But then Charlie is presented with a big case. A huge one. That involves the entire town. And Charlie needs more than just smarts to crack this case. He'll need his friend Henry, their client Scarlet, and a class bully who turns out to have some surprising secrets of his own. Praise for THE HOMEMADE STUFFING CAPER “I loved reading The Homemade Stuffing Caper. The mystery is challenging. The many characters in the book are great fun. I look forward to reading the next Charlie Collier story, and the next, and the next, and the . . .”—David A. Adler, author of the Cam Jansen mysteries “The Homemade Stuffing Caper is an exciting mystery, full of jokes and puns, as well as brainteasers and lots of detective work. This may be the first mystery you don’t want the detective to solve, because you won’t want it to end!”—Bookpage “Brisk and absorbing, author John Madormo’s debut tips its fedora to hard-boiled classics with its ‘sixth-grader meets Sam Spade’ narration.”—FamilyFun Magazine “With mysteries to solve, codes to decrypt, and an extended cast of colorful characters in tow, this first in a new series offers lots of mystery fans to chew on and will leave them hungry for the next installment.”—Booklist

"Private detective, Charlie Collier, is back to his old tricks in his 4th adventure, "The Buried Treasure Caper." In this novel, the 12-year-old snoop for hire stumbles upon a rare coin with a mysterious past. Charlie, Henry, and Scarlett soon find themselves attempting to unravel a 50-year-old murder case that the local police were never able to solve. And like his other adventures, Charlie gets in way over his head and becomes the next victim of a diabolical coin collector who will do anything to protect his secret."--Amazon.com.

When nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict is sent to a new orphanage, he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances - and a mind-bending mystery. Luckily, he has one very important thing in his favour: he's a genius.

Charlie Collier is back solving mysteries out of his parents' garage, and this one's a doozey! Actually, there may be more than just one mystery out there to solve. There's Charlie's friend Sherman's brother, who is missing. And then there's a series of robberies in town involving masked teenagers. Could they be related? Charlie has to get himself in a heap of trouble--like getting thrown in juvie!--to figure out what's going on. Filled with action, adventure, humor and brain teasers, this is perfect for an older elementary school or young junior high school mystery fan.

"It is the fear of the young bird to trust its wings." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust Your Wings and Touch the Sky is a strategy for success based upon the quotations of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is a virtual road map to a happier, more productive, more meaningful existence. Learn how to apply the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson to your daily life, and discover how to make more prudent, more insightful, and more enlightened choices. Over the years, hundreds of self-help and advice manuals have been written to enable us to become more well-adjusted human beings. Like many others, I have perused my share of these seemingly life-altering self-improvement guides, and in fact have found some very helpful. But I have also discovered, because of the sheer numbers, that many of these texts begin to blur after a while. Upon further investigation, we find that many thought-provoking strategies are no more that regurgitations of previous efforts. For years I have been in search of the universal, all-encompassing manual that would lead to a happier, healthier, and more prosperous life. Little did I know that it had found me years earlier. As a veteran college professor and longtime devotee of the writings of author-philosopher-transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, I had never stopped to realize that hidden within the complete works of this nineteenth century master was a bounty of knowledge-advice and counsel that could easily be applied to help cope with today's most pressing problems. In fact, if you were to identify and catalog specific Emerson quotations, you would find yourself with a wealth of wisdom-a virtual road map for a successful life. I hope you enjoy reading Trust Your Wings and Touch the Sky: A Strategy for Success based upon the Quotations of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this manuscript, I have identified 100 of Emerson's most inspirational quotations. I have broken them down into twenty-five categories-Accountability, Character, Conviction, Patience, Wisdom, to name a few. I have then provided an analysis of each quotation, with suggestions on how readers might apply these Emerson principles to their own lives. John Madormo