mystery and detective stories

Always the crook and never the detective when playing with her brother and friends, quiet Rozy Dozy one day overhears the plot of a real theft.

The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with him.

In 1848 Providence, Rhode Island, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new kind of Poe tale.

Contains four stories featuring Nate the Great in which the boy detective solves the mysteries of a misplaced picture, a missing cat, garbage can raids, and a lost recipe.

Contains six stories featuring the character Cam Jansen, a young detective who uses her photographic memory to solve crimes.

When fifth-grader Cam notices that the prizes for the most difficult game at the school carnival are rapidly disappearing, she uses her amazing photographic memory to investigate.

A fifth-grader uses her photographic memory, her mother, and her friend Eric to find a missing reel of a monster film they go to see.

Ten-year-old Cam, possessor of a photographic memory, and her friend Eric investigate what seems to be a brief appearance of U.F.O.s.

Grant and Christina arrive at the zoo, along with Mimi and Papa, only to learn there is a mystery afoot. Includes facts about animals and zookeeping.