mystery and detective stories

When a classmate at his exclusive private school falls to his death from a tower, seventeen-year-old John Fell is determined to find out whether the incident was suicide, accident, or murder.

Kit takes care of a baby of mysterious origin and later must try to save herself and the baby from desperate people who are after it.

Clea Raymond, a talented young photojournalist who has spent her life in the spotlight, and her best friends, Rayna and Ben, travel the globe trying to unravel a centuries-old mystery that could reveal her soulmate's identity and the secret of her father's disappearance.

In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play "Hamlet, " Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.

Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.

After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long line of curanderas--Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?.

Includes nine stories about haunted houses and ghosts, by such notable authors as Elizabeth Coatsworth, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain.