The Diamond Brothers · Book 2
Public Enemy Number Two
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN-13
- 9780142402184
- Type
- novel

About this book
Public Enemy Number Two is Anthony Horowitz's 2nd The Diamond Brothers novel, published in 1987 at 208 pages. It follows The Falcon's Malteser and precedes South by South East in the reading order.
Its place in The Diamond Brothers
Public Enemy Number Two is book 2 in the The Diamond Brothers series. It follows The Falcon's Malteser. It is followed by South by South East. See the full The Diamond Brothers reading order.
Tim Diamond is London's worst private detective -- broke, hopeless, and permanently one step behind every case he takes. Luckily his much smarter kid brother Nick narrates the investigations and quietly does the actual detective work, dragging Tim through blackmail plots, kidnappings, and murder cases that are always several sizes too big for him. Anthony Horowitz wrote these before Alex Rider made him famous, and they read like it: gleefully silly hard-boiled parody, stuffed with puns, absurd villains, and plots…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780142402184