Accompanied by his sidekick polar bear and criminal mastermind Molly Moskins, Timmy takes his investigation into stolen charity funds on the road when his mother forces him to help her boyfriend move to Chicago.

"My name is Failure. Timmy Failure. I am the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, probably the nation. The book you are holding is a historical record of my life as a detective. It has been rigorously fact-checked. All the drawings in here are by me. I tried to get my business partner to do the illustrations, but they were not good. This book, and my life, are the inspiration for a new movie, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were...

This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure's academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy's...

Resolving to earn money for his mother's bills, eleven-year-old Timmy launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear, but finds their enterprise challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge.

"Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown"--Title verso page.

Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the greatest detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.

When his memoirs are being turned into a movie, Timmy must deal with a buffoonish movie director, while his polar bear business partner Total wants to be reunited with his family and Timmy's father is back in town working at a bar.

"What do you mean, you haven't read my memoirs? You've missed on accurate historical record of my life as the founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, possibly the nation. Luckily for you, my business partner convinced me to publish the first two volumes of my memoirs together in one convenient package, which you hold in your hands."--