mystery and detective stories

The Three Investigators are assisted by a Greek youth as they search for clues to a mysterious thief on an island once inhabited by pirates.

While vacationing on a California ranch, three boys decide to investigate strange wails that come from a mysterious cave where a famous outlaw disappeared.

A brass-bound trunk mistakenly delivered to Nancy's cabin on a New York-bound ocean liner becomes the first clue leading her to suspect that international jewel thieves are aboard.

Nancy is asked to recover Shooting Star, a valuable race horse that has been stolen from Rainbow Ranch.

The Hardy boys, vacationing in Vermont, offer to help the police locate a missing camper and find themselves involved with a doomsday cult, a deadly strain of bacteria, and possibly the devil.

A young Frenchman consults Nancy Drew for help in unraveling a mystery surrounding his ancestors.

In a world dominated by an evil corporation, an organization called the Deck, in which the staff is named after suits such as Hearts and Diamonds, deals out justice while Six of Hearts, their best operative, does his work without killing anybody.

A teenager moves with his father from New York City to a small town where strange happenings begin to convince them they're not wanted.

Beginning with the bizarre case reported by the young Abraham Lincoln himself, this work discusses actual unsolved crimes--Lizzie Borden's bloody spree, the Kitty Genovese murder, the assassination of President Lincoln--and includes stories by O. Henry, Aldous Huxley, and Jorge Luis Borges.