mystery and detective stories

Kim must move fast to keep a favorite teacher from getting involved with a mysterious con-artist, and to save her own life.

In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.

Jane wakes up in the hospital after being the victim of a hit-and-run, and, as people come to visit her, she begins to piece together facts about the accident, which she believes was an attack, as well as the death of her best friend, and grows suspicious of everyone she encounters.

When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.

Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon places himself, his friends, and the people of Halla in danger in order to protect the territories from a mysterious plague.

Miss Marple solves the case of a young girl strangled because she accidentally heard too much.

An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.

Tom Marlowe and his mentor, Dr. Harker, investigate who is behind the mysterious crimes of The White Rider in 1716 London.

Still enjoying her new found self-confidence, a thirteen-year-old sleuth in Portland, Oregon, tries to uncover a missing red diamond and gets herself mixed up with a crooked animal shelter worker and some very strange animals.