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Killing in the Market

1988
Frank and Joe investigate the disappearance of Cyril Baynard, a shady investment counselor who's been dating the boys' aunt Gertrude and to whom she entrusted her life savings. His clerk has just been found murdered, and it looks like the bullet was meant for Baynard. When Aunt Gertrude is the chief suspect, the Hardys have to act fast.

Nightmare in Angel City

1988
Callie Shaw disappears while shooting a video for her summer class at UCLA. Frank & Joe drop everything and fly out to look for her. The moment they start to investigate, the situation explodes. During their search of Callie's room, someone greets them with a firebomb.

Casebusters: Backstage with a ghost

1995
Brian and Sean Quinn are two kids with a cool hobby: they're private detectives. After a worker is injured in an old downtown theater, Brian and Sean snap into action to find out what might have happened.

Secret of the Andes

An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
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Sight

Fifteen-year-old Dylan has horrific visions of the last moments of a child's life -- a child who has been abducted, kidnapped, or worse. Dylan gives the police valuable clues that help them to find children's bodies, but she keeps the most personal information about these young victims to herself. Dylan has become used to withholding her sight abilities -- even from her best friend, Pilar -- but the weight of that secret is becoming almost more than she can bear.Then Cate moves into Dylan's mountain town. Enthusiastic and friendly, Cate seems genuinely interested in Dylan, who begins to reveal a bit about herself. But is Cate all that she seems to be? It's not entirely clear...and it takes the disappearance of Pilar's little sister to finally open Dylan's eyes. In a race against time to save a life, and desperate to focus her abilities so that she herself can survive, Dylan is forced to see more clearly than she ever has before.Sight is a powerful and haunting story from the author of the highly acclaimed debut novel Skin. It will open the eyes of readers everywhere.
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Two-minute mysteries collection

Two minute mysteries -- More two-minute mysteries -- Still more two-minute mysteries.
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The mystery of the hot air balloon

The Alden children learn how hot air balloons work and solve a mystery at a balloon rally.
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The discovery

Four kids find a treasure while diving but will they survive the sharks and each other.

A nightmare on Clown Street

Joining his uncle for a summer at the circus, Ray becomes a clown-in-training, but strange things start happening and he wonders about a place called "Clown Street" that even the other clowns are afraid to go to.

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