mystery and detective stories

Herculeah Jones and her best friend Meat set out to crack the case of the mysterious note which she finds in the lining of a second-hand coat.

Dana Bellamy searches for the truth behind the fire for which his father is being blamed.

While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.

Danny Dragonbreath and his friends try to help the senior reptiles of Sunny Acres find a lost item.

In 1865, while helping her family keep their Virginia farm going through the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Cassie meets a Confederate deserter and a Yankee prisoner of war and tries to discover who has been stealing from the farm.

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister spending a year in England, use clues in their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook as they try to solve the mystery of a monster threatening a peaceful country village where a documentary film is being made.

Belle makes the most of her situation while she is being held prisoner by the Beast and explores the castle's many rooms, including the library, where she finds a book with a hidden message that leads her on a mysterious search.

Someone is trying to put Aunt Jane's motel out of business, but the Alden children aren't going to let that happen.

An African-American family moves into a house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves and soon come to believe that their new home is possessed by the spirit of a murdered abolitionist, Dies Drear.