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The Jeweled Peacock of Persia

2006
While investigating the dangerous and inexplicable occurrences surrounding an ancient jewelled artifact, Sherlock Holmes and his Baker Street Brigade find unexplained fires, falling masonry, and other sinister events.

The giant rat of Sumatra

2006
Sherlock Holmes calls on the Baker Street Brigade to help solve the mystery of the disappearance of priceless gifts stored in the Tower of London for Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

The field trip mystery

2006
Carl and Todd are not excited about having to go on a field trip for Mr. Zane's class, but when the permission slips mysteriously disappear and someone makes two phone calls to the bus company, the boys begin to wonder if they are lucky or if something more devious is happening.

Martial law

2006
Frank and Joe Hardy investigate the connection between two suspicious injuries sustained at the Rising Phoenix Martial Arts Center.

Werewolf in a winter wonderland

2003
Nancy Drew and her friends investigate a possible link between disasters at the River Heights Winter Carnival and the disappearance of wolves from a nearby preserve.

Intrigue at the Grand Opera

2003
When the American Grand Opera comes to River Heights, a series of attempts to sabotage--or kill--the singers leads Nancy to investigate.

Islands of intrigue

1996
Nancy, Bess, Frank, and Joe investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of a famous shipping magnate and the disappearance of a renegade American operative suspected of stealing Phoenix missiles while in Greece.

At all costs

1997
Nancy Drew's ski holiday in Utah turns bleak when her friend Allison's boyfriend, Tyler, disappears; and the situation becomes worse when the Hardy brothers, in town to investigate a series of accidents at the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics, begin to suspect Tyler is guilty of sabotage.

The witch lady mystery

1976
A young boy is convinced that the old lady whose leaves he rakes is a witch especially when his own mother sees the old woman disappear.

The mad gasser of Bessledorf Street

1992
Sam suspects the culprit who is gassing assembly line workers in the parachute factory lives in the hotel his family manages.

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