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The missing money mystery

1985
A self-directing adventure starring Nancy Drew and the Hardy brothers, who are investigating the disappearance of a briefcase full of money.

Encyclopedia Brown gets his man

1967
Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious twelve-year-old detective.

The spy code caper

1991
Ernie uses her eagle eye to solve the mystery of the Maple Street spy ring.

Angie's first case

1981
Twelve-year-old Angie, while tracking a gang of teenage thieves to help her sister who is a police officer, becomes dangerously involved with counterfeiters.

Phoebe Danger, detective, in The case of the two-minute cough

1983
The first case to come to Phoebe Danger's detective agency involves a priceless cough syrup bottle, a group of Canadian ornithologists, and a shop specializing in Latin American curios.

Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators in The mystery of the sinister scarecrow

1979
The theft of some mutant army ants by a scarecrow leads the Three Investigators to the solution of two daring crimes in the art world.

The chocolate chip mystery

1972
The ice cream store seems to be haunted because chocolate chip ice cream disappears every night.

Follow that flea!

2005
Second-grader Goofball Malone is known to be good with jokes, but he finally gets his chance to be a detective when a dalmatian dog, Professor Pup, runs off from his owner.

The case of the lighthouse ghost

1995
The group of young people in Newport, Rhode Island, who call themselves the Casecrackers, try to discover the identity of a ghost seen on nearby Hazard Island.

Cable car to catastrophe

1982
While riding a cable car in the Alps, Miss Mallard witnesses a robbery at the retreat of the famed Madame Merganzer.

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