Patterson, James, 1947- Holmes, Margaret & Poe series #2

Sequel to: Holmes, Marple & Poe

"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"--

Excerpts from "The Writer" by James Patterson and J. D. Barker and "Paranoia" by James Patterson and James O. Born on the sequences of 12 and 10 pages at end, respectively