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"The murders in the Rue Morgue" and other tales

2013
Graphic novel adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's mystery short stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget," both of which feature C. Auguste Dupin, who is considered fiction's first detective. Also includes an adaptation of Poe's "The Gold-bug," which follows the adventures of William Legrand, who becomes obsessed with searching for treasure after being bitten by a scarab-like bug thought to be made of pure gold.

The five o'clock ghost

Soon after Claire is called on to investigate a new case, her ghostly partner Kaz is reunited with his brother, Little John, who joins them in searching for the cause of strange phenomena that occur each afternoon at five o'clock.

Sanctuary Bay

2016
When Sara Merson attends the exclusive Sanctuary Bay Academy, she is thrown into a world of privilege, but soon discovers the school's dark secrets as her roommate disappears without a trace.

Take the fall

2016
"When Sonia's best friend is found murdered everything she thought she was sure of is turned on its head as the biggest suspect comes to Sonia for help proving his innocence"--.

Gold medal glitch

2015
Avery Donaldson and her three best friends are happy to be at Storm Cliff Stables for the summer, especially since gold medalist Anna Wainwright is supposed to be there to give riding lessons--but Anna is nowhere to be found, and Avery is convinced something has happened to her hero.

Calendar Mysteries

October Ogre
2013
Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy visit a haunted hotel on Halloween, but once inside they realize that they have seen plenty of people going in but none coming back out.

Mandie and her missing kin

1995
In 1901 when she visits her friend Joe and his family in the mountains of North Carolina, thirteen-year-old Mandie insists on finding out who might be using the supposedly deserted log cabin where she and her father had lived before he died.

The swamp robber

1966
Capturing kidnappers, recovering stolen fortunes, stalking a killer wildcat are all in a days work for the Sugar Creek Gang.

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