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.
The reader assists the two partners of the Beagle Detective Agency in solving a variety of cases including "The Big Pig Problem" and "Unmasking the Vandals.".
When Reddy goes to Montana to visit his aunt and uncle, he is determined to become a rodeo champion before the summer is over, but then someone tries to steal his horse Ruff.
A suspenseful, fast-paced holiday story about the most painful Christmas Eve for a mother whose child follows a thief into the subway in New York and into the most dangerous adventure of his life.
Edgar Poe, aided by the imp McCobber, has twenty-four hours to prove himself innocent of an act of mischief committed at the home of the judge who lives beside John Allan, foster father of the orphaned author-to-be.
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.