mystery and detective stories

Using her excellent memory, Cam Jansen, aided by her friend Eric, investigates the disappearance of Mrs. Scott's valuable pearl necklace during a charity brunch.

Nancy and her friends find their lives in danger when a maniac stalks them while they are on a white water rafting expedition.

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg, finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.

Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.

When the costume for the school's mascot is destroyed, the members of Club CSI are determined to find the culprit before anyone else can solve the case.

Jenny is stalked by a serial killer-- the same murderer who killed her sister Liza, who tries to warn her from the grave.

The reader is asked to help two twelve-year-old sleuths, "Hawkeye Collins" and Amy Adams, solve eight mysteries using Hawkeye's sketches of important clues.

Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.

Mr. Pawley, an artist, feels he has to get away, and behind him at home he leaves his children Kate and her fiveyear-old brother Thomas. Then comes the mysterious Aunt Rhoda to stay with them.