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Vanishing girl

2009
Desperate to prove himself as a master detective, young Sherlock Holmes searches the countryside, coast, and other haunted locals of Victorian England to recover the young socialite who vanished from Hyde Park.

Nightmare

2003
Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an explanation for her recurring nightmares.

Black mirror

a novel
2001
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.

Turn left at the cow

2013
"Thirteen-year-old Trav feels like a fish out of water in rural Minnesota in this coming-of-age mystery about a boy who discovers his dad may have been a bank robber"--Provided by publisher.

Eye of the crow

2007
In 1867, Sherlock Holmes, an impoverished young outcast with a Jewish father and a highborn mother, visits the scene of a woman's brutal murder, where he meets a wrongly accused young Arab and becomes a suspect himself.

Behind the curtain

an Echo Falls mystery
2006
An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.

The case of the cryptic crinoline

an Enola Holmes mystery
2009
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.

The dragon turn

2011
Young Sherlock Holmes helps his friend, Irene, celebrate her sixteenth birthday in the summer of 1869 by taking her to see the latest sensation to hit London--the magician, Alistair Hemsworth, promises to make a real dragon appear on stage--but before the act, Hemsworth is arrested for the murder of his rival, and though he has motive, Sherlock is not convinced he is guilty.

The hidden staircase

1987
Strange things happen when Nancy investigates threats against her father and an old house said to be haunted.

Vanished

2011
Jessica Mastriani, after emerging from a thunderstorm with psychic ability, searches for the killer of a popular cheerleader and works with a government agent to locate a missing child, believed to have been taken by a backwoods militia.

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