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Cam Jansen and the mystery of the circus clown

1991
Fifth-grader Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help find a pickpocket at the circus.

Eat your poison, dear

a Sebastian Barth mystery
1986
Young sleuth Sebastian and three friends probe the mystery of a poisoning in their school cafeteria.

Detective Donut and the wild Goose chase

1997
Detective Donut and his partner, Mouse, set out to find Professor Drake, the world-famous archaeologist who has mysteriously disappeared.

Tarot says beware

1995
Herculeah Jones and her bumbling pal, Meat, investigate the murder of a palm reader.

Encyclopedia Brown gets his man

2002
Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious ten-year-old detective.

Running out of time

1997
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

Sammy Keyes and the search for Snake Eyes

2002
When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.

The Westing game

1992
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

Dead guys talk

a Wild Willie mystery
2006
In the dead middle of summer, the Scarface Detectives investigate their creepiest case yet when a mysterious client sends them to Oak Hill Cemetery, where Loonie Loraine is buried.

Double jeopardy

2003
The Hardy boys investigate a case of sabotage at the Formula One championship in Indianapolis.

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