“Best-selling author James Patterson populates his murder-mystery novels with cold-blooded killers and smart detectives” ( USA Today ). In Holmes is Missing PI Brendan Holmes has committed the perfect crime—he’s made himself disappear. Success has come quickly to Holmes Marple & Poe Investigations. The New York City agency led by three detectives—Brendan Holmes “the brain ” Margaret Marple “the eyes ” and Auguste Poe the “muscle”—with famous names and mysterious pasts is one major case away from cementing its professional reputation. But as a series of child abductions tests the PIs’ legendary skills the cerebral Holmes’s absence leaves a gaping hole in the agency roster. Only by closing ranks and solving the mystery within can they recover all that’s been lost.