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Open and shut cases?!

40 more mini-mysteries for you to solve
2006
The reader can use visual clues and deductive reasoning to help Daisy and Ridley solve forty puzzling mysteries. Includes solutions.

More Minden curses

1980
When the Minden Curse involves Danny with the old Caspitorian house, he discovers the secret of its hauntedness and lost treasure and helps foil a schemer who wants both the house and treasure.

The sea bears

1984
Jeanine, spending the summer on the Nova Scotia seacoast while her father works on a secret project, senses danger as she becomes convinced that one of her father's co-workers is selling information for use by enemy submarines.

The mystery of the marmalade cat

1969
Three children turn detective to investigate the rumor that the newly inherited family home in Massachusetts is cursed by yellow cats.

The pink motel

1993
When Kirby, Bitsy, and their parents inherit an unusual and very pink motel in Florida, they find it filled with eccentric characters, mystery, and adventure.

Home before dark

2005
Erik and his friends, exploring on a remote island, become acquainted with Gary, a retired logger, and soon find themselves caught up in a race to save Gary's life when their interest in his story about the suspicious deaths of his aunt and uncle draws the attention of a shadowy stranger.

Cam Jansen and the chocolate fudge mystery #14

2000
When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric uncover a mystery while selling fudge door-to-door to raise money for the local library, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime.

Skink no surrender

To avoid being shipped off to boarding school, Malley takes off with some guy she met online. Richard knows his cousin' in trouble before she does. Wild Skink-- the ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida-- is enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets, and giant gators.

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