This is a shop where people rarely find what they desire. But they always leave with what they deserve. –Payvand ReedEnter a strange little shop.Look. Over there. Behind the counter. Its owner is waiting for you.Who is Payvand Reed?And why doe...
In this sequel to Payvand Reed's Curiosity Shoppe, Brad Johnston assumes his role as the store's proprietor and decides to carry Mr. Reed's peculiar idea in a new direction. In addition to selling occult paraphernalia, Brad now holds monthly sé...
Have you ever wanted to attend that other famous school of witchcraft and wizardry but never received a letter of acceptance? Well, maybe it was just lost in the mail. But don't despair. Here is your formal acceptance into Payvand Reed's Academy of S...
When a tenor is murdered only days before the annual opera festival begins in the tiny European duchy of Allemonde, it's up to Chief Inspector D. T. Giovanni to find the culprit. Unfortunately for Giovanni, everyone seems to have a motive and no one ...
The University of Allemonde decides to sponsor an airshow for dirigibles at the same time as the duchy's annual opera festival. The composer celebrated this year is Gioachino Rossini and, when a performer is killed onstage, the future of both the air...
Shocking deaths and equally shocking reappearances abound in the latest case that the Grand Duchy of Allemonde's chief inspector, D. T. Giovanni, must solve. Allemonde's grand duke decides that, in the aftermath of the global pandemic, what the world...
When the president and dean of a small private college conspire to assign all the faculty troublemakers to a new unit and then dissolve the unit, their plan unexpectedly backfires. The resulting Department of Eminent Scholars manages to recruit just ...
Ancient Greek heroes were completely different from their modern counterparts. Rather than being distinguished by his virtue and willingness to sacrifice himself for the sake of others, the hêrôs of the fifth century B.C.E. was distinguis...