mystery and detective stories

Josephine, the new girl in Awkward Falls, and her neighbor Thaddeus, a reclusive, orphaned boy inventor, are targets of a mad cannibal from the local criminal asylum.

Thirteen-year-old Gerald inherits twenty billion pounds, a Caribbean island, a yacht, and three estates from his great-aunt Geraldine, a relative he never knew, but the fortune comes with a letter that informs him Geraldine was murdered and that it is up to him to solve the crime.

The four Alden children uncover a mystery while volunteering at a food pantry for the needy.

Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with Encyclopedia Brown as he investigates such cases as toys missing from a fair.

On a cruise ship to Parrot Island, Philippa suspects a new on-board entertainer of plotting to steal rare parrots.

Cam Jansen and her photographic memory help her friend's grandfather retrieve his missing bag with an important graduation gift in it.

While visiting an old castle in England, Samantha and Nellie solve mysteries involving a ghost and some missing rare books.

When Aunt Molly takes Cam and her friend Eric to the circus, their box of caramel popcorn mysteriously disappears.

KC and Marshall run across a forgotten cubbyhole while painting a closet at the White House and find a box of toy horses that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson; when they go to Monticello to return the horses, the box disappears, and they explore the building and grounds to find the thief.

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.