The Maltese Mummy is the second installment of the graphic novel series Chicagoland Detective Agency, a new agency made up of a computer nerd, a teen girl who considers herself a haiku poetry expert and a talking dog.  Business is slow, in fact, it’s nonexistent.  Megan wants Raf to attend a concert with her starring Sun D’Arc, a popular teen idol of whom she is a big fan.  Raf is ill and Megan takes William, an acquaintance, instead.  At the concert, Sun D’Arc is rude and invites William backstage.  Come to find out, Sun D’Arc is actually an Egyptian mummy who is cursed and needs a body substitute to take his place in the sarcophagus, and William is just the right size.  The story starts slow and builds nicely, with kind of an abrupt finish.  But that is the beauty of graphic novels–pictures are worth a thousand words and readers can fill in between the dialogue.  Book is on the thin side and I believe readers would like a longer or meatier story, however, this should keep them satisfied until number three comes out.  I just wish Megan had better manners.