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Gruesome ghosts

2011
Damian Drooth tries to find out what is haunting a creepy old house, but the case proves to be Damian's hardest yet.

Pressure play

1993
Travis, less obsessed with baseball than his fellow team members, tries to balance his playing with his hobby of horror videos and starts receiving anonymous threats warning him to spend more time on baseball.

Encyclopedia Brown takes the case

1987
Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, assists the police force with ten insoluble cases. Solutions are at the back of the book.

Marty Frye, private eye

1998
Marty Frye, a seven-year-old who likes to read poetry and talk in rhymes, solves three separate mysteries for a classmate, a toy store owner, and his younger sister.

Scooby-Doo!

the haunted ski lodge
2001
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy fear snow monsters after a storm strands them in an empty lodge during the gang's ski trip.

The black tower

2007
Herculeah Jones gets involved in another dangerous mystery when she goes to visit old Mr. Shivers Hunt, resident of the forbidding Hunt House.

The mysterious matter of I.M. Fine

2002
Noticing that a popular series of horror novels is having a bizarre effect on the behavior of its readers, Franny and Beamer set out to find the mysterious author.

Aunt Eater's mystery Christmas

1995
Aunt Eater must interrupt her holiday preparations to solve some Christmas Eve mysteries.

The disappearing floor

1992
A disappearing floor, a savage-looking hound, a galloping ghost and a startling invention are just a few of the strange elements that complicate Frank and Joe's efforts to solve the mystery of the death of an heir to a mansion.

The election-day disaster

2008
KC and Marshall throw a Halloween party at the White House, wake up the next day to discover fake, damaging photos of President Thornton on the Internet, and try to help save his election.

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