mystery and detective stories

Nancy and her friends, in search of information about a UFO, become involved in another mystery involving the inheritance of an old man who lives in the forest.

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

An adaptation of the story in which Holmes and Watson investigate the tale of a hound that haunts a family living by the lonely moors of Devonshire.

When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.

The reader is given an opportunity to solve two mysteries before young sleuth Tommy Preston unravels each case.

Flossie brings the doll her grandmother gave her to show-and-tell and it is kidnapped! The Bobbseys set out to find the missing doll.

Though it means Nate can't get his dog ready for the smartest pet contest, he agrees to search for the missing prize for the contest.

The members of the Baby-sitters Club split their time between babysitting and investigating the spooky noises behind Dawn's bedroom wall.

Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.