Mooser, Stephen

Second-grader Goofball Malone is known to be good with jokes, but he finally gets his chance to be a detective when a dalmatian dog, Professor Pup, runs off from his owner.

En route to join their mother in the desert, thirteen-year-old Jamie and her older brother pick up a hitchhiker with a bag of money and soon find themselves helping to place a $12,000 bet in Las Vegas.

Melvin takes the Creepy creature club money and spends it on a surprise that no one likes. Now Melvin must earn the money back.

Henry is practicing to be a ghost writer. He has the other Creepy Creature Club members shivering with fright.

Relates nine mysterious events of the 19th and 20th centuries that have never been adequately explained, such as the story of the woman who could see through walls and the man who disappeared into thin air.

When his class wins a free trip to the circus, Goofball gathers clues to track down the winning number his teacher must produce.

When thirteen-year-old Carrie uses a legal technicality to seize control of the school board and makes her best friend Jamie principal of their junior high school, things rapidly get out of control.

A wisecracking waiter uses some of his best jokes to foil a robbery.

Horace and Mildred Flopbottom hire the young professionals of the Treasure Hounds organization to find out where Aunt Henrietta stashed her fortune before she died. Also includes two descriptions of actual treasures which have never been found.

Funnyman, a detective who can't stop making jokes and puns, tries to catch the thief of the world's rarest stamp at the Royal Stamp Show.