mystery and detective stories

Thirteen-year-old Jack Buckles is great at finding things. Not just a missing glove or the other sock, but things normal people have long given up on ever seeing again. If only he could find his father, who has disappeared in London without a trace. But Jack s father was not who he claimed to be. It turns out that he was a member of a secret society of detectives that has served the crown for centuries and membership into the Lost Property Office is Jack s inheritance.

The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.

Contains two Jigsaw Jones mysteries in which the kid detective and his sidekick Mila search for clues to the whereabouts of Jigsaw's missing dog, Rags; and the duo looks for the source of the smell that is making science class uncomfortable.

Dog detectives Lu and Clancy work together to foil a robbery attempt at the carnival, in spite of Lu's cousin Jake's interference. Includes a selection of magic tricks.

Mary-Kate and Ashley thought that going to see the New York City Ballet would be fun, but when the star ballerina's diamond tiara is stolen, the girls find themselves trying to solve the mystery before the show is ruined.

Chronicles the adventures of an eleven-year-old detective that result from finding a duck in the elevator of his apartment building.

In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell, " fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain.

Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.

Fifth-grader Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help find a pickpocket at the circus.

A national computer programmer champ wins a free trip to Hawaii and becomes involved in a dangerous adventure. The reader makes choices to decide the outcome of the plot.