mystery and detective stories

Bess really wants to be the Pumpkin Princess so she can wear the crown and special dress in the fall parade, but snobby Brenda Carlton wins the princess contest. When the gown disappears and Nancy agrees to help Brenda find it, Bess feels betrayed and Nancy worries that being a detective means she will lose her best friend.

Someone is trying to sabotage the field trip that Nancy's class is taking to the zoo.

The ten-year-old detective continues his war on crime in Idaville through ten more cases, for which the reader is invited to guess the solution before it is revealed.

Famous crime fighter Smiffy Blue blunders his way to solving the mystery of a missing formula and three other cases.

Nancy investigates when a sled belonging to her friend Molly disappears.

Nancy and her friends open a lemonade stand in the park, but they find themselves out of business and on the trail of a mystery when their box of lemons is stolen.

Nancy's housekeeper Hannah has a secret and Nancy is sure it is that Hannah has found another job. Nancy will do anything to keep Hannah, even clean the house.

Frank and Joe investigate when their snowman is stolen and entered into a contest.

When Joe accidentally slams a slap shot into a star figure skater, she accuses Joe of stealing her good-luck charm, and it is up to Chet and Frank to prove Joe's innocence.

Frank and Joe go on a camping trip and investigate the possibility that a monster inhabits the local lake.