Here is a library of books created by a community of parents and children where you can browse books that others have enjoyed and recommended. Snape then tells Herbert he is a suspect, mainly because they were found with Naples dying, in his hotel room, just moments after a gunshot rang out – and Herbert was holding the gun that had killed the dwarf. With no leads, no one to go to, and being framed for murder, the brothers encounter Tim's former boss, Police Chief Snape and his aggressive partner Boyle, a lounge singer named Lauren Bacardi, an underworld crime boss known only as 'The Fat Man', and two German hitmen named Gott and Himmel.

We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child.Gratuitous German: Gangsters Gott and Himmel occasionally use German phrases and have private conversations in German. Both McLinden and Dale reprised their respective film roles, which makes the television series act as a sequel to Just Ask for Diamond. It is not included in promotions available to our main range products, as stated in our terms of service. The police picked him up in passport control at Heathrow, before losing him for a short while, until they found him at the Hotel Splendide in Portobello Road.

In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider ongoing series of books, he has also written episodes of several popular TV crime series, including Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders, and Murder Most Horrid . Although I wouldn't say this one was the best on in the series (I know what you did last Wednesday was the best one), it was definitely worth the read and I recommend it to anyone.T. He penned the script for the film The Gathering, which was released in 2003, starring Christina Ricci. Herbert suggests sending Nick to Australia or to Auntie Maurie in Slough, who has a semi-detached house, and a semi-detached hip, and often forces Nick to give her round the clock nursing. I was left holding a diamond the diamond size of a peanut" My favorite part of this book is when the police come to rescue Nick. Tim Diamond runs the world’s worst private detective agency along with his long suffering little brother Nick.

At least, that's my version of events and that's what counts here because, very unusually, I actually appear in the book as his not entirely successful sidekick; the Watson to his Holmes.In April 2020, when the fourth full-length Diamond Brothers novel Where Seagulls Dare was announced, it was initially assumed that the novel would have some relation to the Australian-based adventure alluded to at the end of The Greek Who Stole Christmas, but Horowitz quickly confirmed on Twitter that this was not so, and that The Radius of the Lost Shark has still yet to be written. THEY ARE THE BIGGEST CRIME IN LONDON THE POLICE DIDN'T CATCH THEM FOR LIKE 7 YEARS,BUT THANKS TO NICK. The next day – after going to the cinema to see 101 Dalmatians – they find their flat turned over by someone during the day. Nick notices this, and wonders how she knew Tim's real name, since when she originally rang, she only mentioned "Tim", and at no point when Nick spoke to her did he reveal Tim's real name.

This book is in good condition - ex-library with one stamp on rfep; remains of borrowing sheet and stamp on ffep; stamp on half title and title pages; pages tanned; remainder mark on bottom edge; top and front edges a little dirty. Tim has a job as a (lousy) private detective with barely any cases to investigate, and things look pretty bad for them, until a. In The Diamond Brothers in… Public Enemy Number Two (1987), Nick Diamond is once again thrust into danger by being framed for a jewel heist he didn't commit, so that he'll be forced to go undercover as a jewel thief to find out the true identity of an unknown master criminal known only as "the Fence". Nick gives him the fake packet and follows the Professor halfway down the road, but then is intercepted and kidnapped by Gott and Himmell, the most dangerous criminals in pursuit of the Maltesers. Although they may not get the references to Sam Spade and other 30s crime fiction, most of the humor in the novel can be found in clever word-play and outlandish situations and so definitely stands the test of time.After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, thirteen-year-old Nick scampers to solve the mystery while also trying to stay one step ahead of an assortment of thugs.