Boy detectives Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland use the fact that they are dead to help with their investigations, but when they save a girl named Crystal Palace, they open a case that leads to the same school where they died decades earlier.
"From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Neil Gaiman's intrepid dead schoolboys head back to the horror that is St. Hilarions School--the place where they both were murdered. Written by Toby Litt and illustrated by Mark Buckingham (FABLES) DEAD BOY DETECTIVES VOL. 2 features the second mysterious arc from the new hit series from Vertigo. Collects DEAD BOY DETECTIVES #7-12"--.