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Once upon a crime

2001
Vivi Calderon becomes the target of a stalker after she finds a stash of incriminating notes, written by a young woman who was killed in suspicious circumstance years earlier, hidden between the pages of library books.

The hunter

2001
Young electrician Greg Naylor, having gotten on the wrong side of his co-worker Adam Lewis, suddenly finds himself the victim of increasing dangerous accidents.

Wolf rider

2000
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

From Norvelt to nowhere

2013
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.

What Eric knew

a Sebastian Barth mystery
1995
After Eric moves away he sends cryptic notes to Sebastian and David, who attempt to make sense of them by investigating a mysterious death.

A case for Jenny Archer

1990
After reading three mysteries in a row, Jenny becomes convinced that the neighbors across the street are up to no good and decides to investigate.

The ghost next door

1971
Exposing the medium hired to contact the ghost of a dead girl as a fake doesn't solve mysterious events but makes them more puzzling.

Hangman's gold

2011
Twelve-year-old detectives Slate Stephens and Daphne McSweeney risk their lives to find lost gold from Montana's vigilante era while working to recover two priceless Charles Russell paintings stolen from a university art museum.

Murder by high tide

2011
In "Murder By High Tide," a mysterious death at sea leads Gil Jordan to a very dangerous case; in "Catch As Catch Can," the vengeful Joe the Syringe stages a baffling prison break.

The London Eye mystery

2007
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.

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