Your eyes are closed, you’re leaning back in your chair and drifting off when a low gravelly voice disturbs you.

“Hey, I don’t pay you to snooze. Look sharp!”

A familiar white furry face looms over you. Two oily black eyes. One wet pink nose. This is Klaus Solstaag: a private investigator, your boss and a yeti.

“I nip out for five minutes and when I get back I find you taking a nap. I know you said you had a bad night’s sleep but I need you alert now.”

Klaus turns on one of the many fans. The cold breeze makes you sit bolt upright. It catches a pile of newspapers, blowing them around the already messy office.

“We have a visitor,” he says.

You’ve learned a lot about Haventry since Klaus hired you as his assistant. For the most part, it’s a quiet, ordinary town, but its shady side is home to every mythical being imaginable – and even a few you never dared to imagine.

The hairs on your arms stand on end as a shadow appears at the frosted windowpane. You never know who or what will walk through that door next.

When it does suddenly swing open, a man in a white lab coat bursts into the room. On his head, he wears a pair of goggles strapped over an explosion of white hair…

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