Grimes, Martha

Discovering the crumbling remains of a once-fabulous hotel in the woods near her small home town, twelve-year-old cub reporter Emma Graham stumbles on clues pertaining to a forty-year unsolved crime involving deeply buried secrets.

A bleak Richard Jury takes an aimless ride on one of London's icons - the old double-decker bus, a number 14 traveling the Fulham Road. His attention is caught by a woman "with hair so gossamer-pale you could see the moon through it" leaving a pub called the Stargazey. Her behavior intrigues him, as she leaves, reboards, and leaves the bus again at Fulham Palace Road-but only at the gates. There he stops.

"Andi," a teenage girl who has been living in the mountains of New Mexico for four months ever since waking up at a bed-and-breakfast with amnesia, meets fourteen-year-old Mark Dark Hope and together they set out to discover who "Andi" really is and why she was abducted.

Melrose Plant, aristocratic sidekick of Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, leases an estate in Cornwall only to learn he cannot escape the murderous tendencies of his fellow man, or the company of his dreaded Aunt Agatha.

Inspector Richard Jury is dispatched to Long Piddleton, Northants, to help solve many murders.

The town sheriff, trapped in a loveless marriage, turns his attentions to Maud, a writer, and to the murders of three local women.

While dealing with his own past memories, Richard Jury must help his friend Mickey Haggerty find the answers to two mysteries, rooted in that past.

Twelve-year-old Emma Graham becomes obsessed with the story of Mary-Evelyn Devereau--a girl just Emma's age who drowned in Spirit Lake forty years earlier. In the course of her investigation, Emma learns secrets best left untold and must make some grown-up decisions about right and wrong.