After their mother disappears, Rick and his brother, Kenny, go to stay with an uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search that puts them in danger.
A sixteen-year-old boy arranges a housesitting job for the summer, but he starts acting strangely after his family moves in, and his sister begins to suspect they are not supposed to be there.
Herculeah investigates the murder of a local fortune-teller--the only witness being the victim's parrot, who refuses to talk--and finds her own life in danger as she gets closer to the truth.
Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia, along with their friend Rick, find themselves in ancient Egypt in search of an important map after going through a magical door in their old English mansion.
Contains sixteen short detective stories, featuring selections by Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Isaac Asimov, and others, and includes seven mini-mysteries for the reader to solve.
