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The cuckoo tree

2000
As the result of an accident a young girl is faced with the responsibility of foiling a Hanoverian plot to put St. Paul's Cathedral on rollers and roll it into the River Thames during the coronation of James IV.

Black hearts in Battersea

1999
An orphan arrives in London and becomes embroiled in a plot against the king.

Sherlock Holmes

the complete illustrated short stories
2000
The complete illustrated collection of all fifty-six short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which feature Sherlock Holmes.

People of darkness

1991
Detective Chee is asked to find a box of stolen keepsakes which contains the key to a mysterious cult called The People of Darkness.

The return of Abracadabra

2013
Combines two previously published stories, The assistant vanishes, and The trouble with Abracadabra, in which Charlie Hitchcock and Tyler Yu investigate mysterious happenings at the Abracadabra, a hotel for retired magicians.

Summer camp science mysteries

a mystery about sound
2013
Hearing strange murmuring near the lake, campers Braelin and Megan search for the ghostly voices, putting their new knowledge of sound and amplification to good use.

Summer camp science mysteries

a mystery about adaptations
2012
After studying animal adaptations and then noticing a camp counselor's suspicious late-night activities, campers begin to fear that the counselor is really a werewolf. Includes glossary and experiments.

The book bandit

a mystery with geometry
2010
When the public library offers a prize for figuring out how a "book monster" sculpture was fit in through a small window in their Reader's Corner, the students of Sifu Faiza's Kung Fu School use geometry to solve the mystery.

The trouble with chickens

a J.J. Tully mystery
2011
A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.

The case of the July 4th jinx

2010
With the help of ace detective Dash Marlowe, sleuths-in-training Mio and Jazz investigate a so-called jinx at the local Fourth of July fair.

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