If there's something Daring Do hates, it's fancy Hearth's Warming parties.
If there's something Daring Do loves, it's saving the world.

Combine the two, watch how long she lasts.

As seen on EQD.

Originally written as the Secret Santa gift to Razalon The Lizardman.

Edited by Octavia Harmony and Themaskedferret.

Ponyville is one of the largest cities in Equestria, a center for trade and finance, a melting pot of many races, tribes, and cultures. It is also a place where corruption is a way of life. Here, the cops that aren't on the take are forever chasing their own tails, citizens live in fear, and gangs battle for control of the streets.

Daring Do has just been released from prison after a year-long sentence for thievery, and no one is about to let her forget her place. Phillip Finder is a local private detective and the bane of the Ponyville Police Department. The new partners quickly find themselves at ground zero of a city-wide gang war; surrounded by dirty cops, mobsters, assassins, and bizarre crimes, they can only rely on each other and a few honest ponies for aid.

They're hardly heroes. Which means they may be exactly what Ponyville needs.

Updates every Wednesday. Proofread by Eagle—Paladin of Shadows

The first story of the Noireverse.

Sex and Gore tags for suggestive content and graphic descriptions.

Check out the theme music by The L-Train by clicking here!

Featured on 1/29/18! Thank you all so much! <3

A bit of background...

Three years ago, I introduced Phillip Finder in my first fanfiction, "The Pony in the Gray Trilby." Over the next many months, I kept writing and eventually turned my first work into a twenty-story series. I learned much and enjoyed the stories' moderate success, but unfortunately, I became dissatisfied with them over time. I realize that it's perhaps a bit of a cliche that many artists end up hating their own work, but for both Tchaikovsky and myself, it is the truth.

I initially planned to write this story as a prequel to the series, focusing on Phillip Finder and Daring Do. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I wanted to improve upon my work, but felt as though I was being held back by the original series. While I am proud of my first stories for what I learned and gained through them, I decided that the best course of action for me, what would make me the happiest, would be to wipe the slate clean and start again from the basic foundations.

That's where this story comes in. A semi-reboot of the original series, the adventures contained herein, set in a vastly different alternate universe and replete with a mixture of reinterpreted and original characters, are the culmination of all the experience that I gained writing the original series. This is Phillip Finder and company as I meant them to be.

I hope that you enjoy reading this story as much as I enjoy writing it!

When a foreign pony threatens to conquer Equestria using a device known as 'The Wendigo Shrine', it's up to Daring Do and her partner, Jackhammer, to bring an end to him! She will travel to the ends of Equestria in an attempt to stop him, but will she succeed in saving Equestria? Or will the dangerous elements, and henchmen cut Daring Do's adventure short?

Feedback would be pretty awesome. I'm trying to improve the quality of my writing, but that's kind of hard to do when I don't know what to change.

Cover art is done by me, ThePartyCannon, at DeviantArt (http://fav.me/d4rne8b)

Follow the tale of Desert Dust, daughter to Equestria's greatest explorer and adventurer, Daring Do, as she uncovers a sinister plot to harness unnatural forces and meddle with the balance of life and death. Following the trail left to her by her missing mother, Dust will have to traverse the world and travel to far-flung locations, searching for her lost mother and continuing her quest for the legendary Cask of Undeath.

This fic features some moderate violence, but nothing too gruesome.

In Zebrica, they are legends. The Eyes of the Demon, an artifact of immense magical power and insane destructive potential. For untold centuries they have been hidden away, only a few knowing their true location and awesome power.

Even Daring Do herself tries to write off the legends of the Eyes as little more than myths. But when a zebra warlord learns of their location, it's up to Daring to recover the Eyes of the Demon before this agent of strife can harness the power to destroy nations.

The second book in the renown Daring-Do series.
Join Daring on her quest for the Griffon's Goblet, the legendary drinking cup said to have belonged to Discord himself. A quest that will take her around the globe, from the highest towers of Canterlot to the lowest dungeons of the Lost Kingdom.

Spacial thanks to TehJadeh for letting me use her picture as a cover. Find her gallery here: http://tehjadeh.deviantart.com/

Daring Do seeks a favor from her sister in Ponyville. Due to buried grudges, things quickly get out of hoof. She soon finds herself on her most perilous mission yet... with her biggest fan in the world. In the midst of truth and lies, loyalty and treachery, love and hate, one thing is clear ― some family situations are stranger than fiction.

The story extends in Through the Looking-glass and What Pinkie Found There and The Daughter Doo: Honorary Cutie Mark Crusader.

Many thanks to Honey Mead and statoose for their watchful and helpful pre-reading.

Ckat_Myla and statoose (CatNStat) have started an excellent reading of TSD.

Rainbow Dash has a day off and gets her hooves on the latest novel about Daring Do. Daring Do gets a lead on an amazing relic from an unexpected source. But things are not what they seem, and her old rival is racing to get the same prize. If she isn't careful she won't be able to stop evil from getting a powerful artifact. She might not even make it out alive!

Special thanks to n1de for the cover art. http://n1de.deviantart.com/

This is the first of a three part series.

Every chapter is its own story, child friendly, in the style of the show. All arcing together to form one massive adventure. Not so much chapters, as multiple short stories tying into one massive saga.

These are all based in the 'Almanac Daring Do Universe', my own Daring Do universe that follows the series extremely closely, but allows me a little leeway with creative content without constantly relying on ever expanding canon causing difficulties. ^-^

Each book is short as they are made for kids primarily, but I hope many bronies enjoy them as well.
Hardback merchandise of these books will be available in time and the first is already available. Details can be found at my deviantart: http://almanacpony.deviantart.com/

I have an official editor that aids me in keeping the flow good, grammar decent and everything else a high quality, however he is having some difficulties right now and is a few books behind. So please don't be too harsh on some slight mistakes in the later books.
They will be corrected in time. :)

I hope you enjoy each book, and I sincerely hope you give me plenty of feedback.

Twilight Sparkle accompanies Rainbow Dash to Canterlot for a book signing of Daring Do. While there, the popular series' author, Twilight Velvet - Twilight Sparkle's mother - reveals a story about Daring that Twilight never knew existed.