mystery and detective stories

In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.

An uneasy friendship with the strange, constantly angry new girl in her neighborhood leads eleven-year-old Janie Potter to discover a hidden cache of money and stolen jewelry.

In London, at Christmas time in 1870, a strange message in the classified ads leads the three young detectives to murders that appear to be connected with the Scarlet Rose Gang, whose leader was killed years before.

Relates how Mummy Dearest receives first prize for creative cooking despite the plotting of the Ol' Perfessor.

Twelve-year-old Teddy investigates when a popular Texas zoo's star attraction--Henry the hippopotamus--is murdered.

Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns.

Two sets of twins suspect their neighbors of wrong-doing when they observe the strange behavior of the couple's nephew.

While their family is away, Harold and Chester, a dog and a cat, are boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow where Chester becomes increasingly alarmed by the strange disappearance of one of them.

Encyclopedia Brown, a ten-year-old detective, uses his intelligence to help solve ten puzzling crimes.

Ten mysteries and their solutions from the casebooks of Encyclopedia Brown, the ten-year-old detective.