With Halloween coming, 10-year-old Doug begins his quest for the perfect costume, the character from his favorite horror movie, "The Scary Knight." Sure, it's expensive, but he's got a plan. All the while he's still got to deal with school, decorating, backyard haunted houses, bullies, chores, neighborhood crazies, anti-Halloween zealots, the PTA, young love and dangerous counterfeiters. Just your typical suburban Halloween. It's a comical tale featuring the Minelli family, a middle-class clan living in the outermost borough of New York City and all the silliness that ensues, along with the...

Max Federman is an aspiring writer who has suddenly taken it into his noggin to write a trashy potboiler of a book about the rich and infamous to crash the best seller list. The only problem is he knows nothing about the rich or infamous. So, to appease the writer's credo of "write what you know," Max heads out on the road trip of his life albeit one that mostly involves boats, trains and planes. Come to think of it, there are only a couple of acutal roads at all. It's a series of unfortunate events that Max stumbles through, dealing with crazed serial killers, bizarre underworld criminals,...

Nick Flebber is back on the case And this time he brought a date Where ever famed mystery author Jennifer Bates goes, she's leaves a trail of murder and mayhem. And now she wants Nick to prevent it from happening again. And he does, until a pesky corpse turns up at the house. Needless to say, everyone's a suspect. Can Nick solve the case and save the publishing industry? This mystery is one for the books