mystery and detective stories

Fenton and Gerald investigate a suspected kidnapping after finding a note containing a plea for help tucked inside a cat's collar.

While spending the summer in an old house on a desolate Canadian island, Anthony Monday and Miss Eells discover a chest that can transport them to another world and a maniacal group who are plotting the destruction of people on Earth.

Nancy Drew and two of her friends solve a mystery involving a phantom, long-lost wedding gifts, and an old ship disaster.

Nancy takes up residence on an old clipper to find a clue to its missing figurehead. She is confronted with fire, theft, and other dangerous situations.

"Teen sleuth Sammy Keyes solves a classic locked-room mystery aboard a cruise ship"--Provided by publisher.

After a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower," the Hardy boys make an astonishing discovery.

Herculeah meets a murder mystery writer, and has the uneasy feeling that he knows more about murder than he should.

Lured to their sick Uncle Silas's home under the pretense of becoming heirs to his vast fortune, cousins Adele, Isabella, and Milo soon learn that the old man has a diabolical plan to prevent his own death.

Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.

Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Includes solutions at the back of the book.