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Detective Jeffrey Bones helps a clown who performed at his friend's birthday party to find some lost clothing.

A boy is proud that his father is a clown, since making people laugh is a very important job, and one day he and his other father go to watch the clown rehearsing.

Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.

"Ellie is a 12-year old vampire that loves solving mysteries, but is afraid of ... everything. She's afraid of spiders, lakes, and loud noises to name a few. But with a little courage and help from her friends, Ellie just might achieve her dream of becoming a real detective. In this second book in the series, Ellie must overcome her fear of clowns (and hatred of garlic) to solve the mystery of the missing sunscreen ... before she ends up with permanent...

Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke. What he says...