Plot
Collects The Sandman (1989-1996 DC/Vertigo) #25, The Children's Crusade (1993 DC/Vertigo) #1-2, The Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives (2001) #1-4, Dead Boy Detectives (2013) #1-12, Jill Thompson's The Dead Boy Detectives; an original middle chapter to the Children's Crusade from Free Country: A Tale of The Children's Crusade HC (2015 DC/Vertigo); and stories from Vertigo Winter's Edge (1998-2000) #3, Ghosts (2012 DC/Vertigo), Time Warp (2013 DC/Vertigo), and The Witching Hour (1999 Vertigo) #1; and pages from Death: At Death's Door GN (2003 DC/Vertigo Digest), Swamp Thing (1982-1996 2nd Series) Annual #7, and Doom Patrol (1987-1995) Annual #2. Cover by Chris Bachalo.
Stepping out of the pages of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, the Dead Boy Detectives are thrust into the mystery of a lifetime. Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine were murdered at boarding school, but that hasnt stopped them from living out their dreams. While avoiding Death (literally) they enjoy a ghostly afterlife by reading mystery novels, watching thrillers, and hanging out in their clubhouse. Aspiring to the (un) life of a detective, the two will take on their first case and unwittingly fall prey to supernatural horrors galore and a life(less)long obsession with solving creepy, scary capers.