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Disneyland hostage

a Liz Austen mystery
2000
Young Canadian Liz Austen is taken hostage by terrorists on a trip to Disneyland with her aunt Melody.

Code name Cassandra

2001
Jess Mastriani's psychic ability to find missing children is more of a bother than a gift, and her attempts to locate a missing girl is hindered the by the government's attempts to take her into custody to study her powers.

The case of the golden boy

a Tom Austen mystery
2001
Tom Austen investigates the kidnapping of a schoolmate, but in the process, Austen is taken prisoner by the kidnappers.

The beginning

2000
Amy is fearful of being captured in Washington, D.C. by the people who run Project Crescent.

Amy, number seven

1998
Amy suddenly develops strange powers and investigates the mystery of her own past.

The sky phantom

1976
While vacationing in the Midwest with her friends, Nancy Drew investigates a mysterious magnetic cloud, searches for a hijacked plane, and hunts a horse thief.

Spiderweb for two

a Melendy maze
2002
Left alone when Rush, Mark, and Mona go away to boarding school, Randy and Oliver are lonely and bored until a mysterious letter brings the first of many clues to a mystery that takes all winter to solve.

The purloined corn popper

1997
Ten-year-old Tim is worried when a popcorn popper containing a wad of money is stolen from his kitchen and his friend Freddie is suspected of the crime.

The serial sneak thief

1997
A master criminal known as The Chameleon threatens to disrupt a mystery contest being held in the public library, but J.G. and the other Watchdogs are on hand to investigate.

The bomb in the Bessledorf bus depot

1996
After several bombs go off around town, eleven-year-old Bernie Magruder becomes suspicious of various members of his family, causing confusion in Officer Feeney's investigation and around the hotel that his parents run.

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