mystery and detective stories

Thirteen-year-old Nate, aided by his newly-discovered cousin and the famous magician Harry Houdini, catches the Fifth Avenue Slasher, solves a string of burglaries, and stops a notorious gang leader.

While covering the World Series, teen reporters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol uncover some inconsistencies in the life story of a popular, new pitcher and begin to investigate.

Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd, and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

Nancy, Bess, and George investigate after they find a yacht with a safe full of jewelry and a man who has been missing for ten years reappears to claim the fortune.

In 1925, fourteen-year-old amateur detective G. Codd Fitzmorgan finds himself at a lavish party in a storm-battered island mansion, embroiled in a mystery involving a seance, a missing aviator, and the sale of liquor banned under Prohibition.

Nancy Drew decides to investigate when it appears someone is trying to sabotage the town's already contentious reenactment of a Civil War battle.

Examines the life and career of American author Edgar Allan Poe, and features analyses of selected poems and stories.

Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon and Spader from the planet Cloral journey back in time to 1937 New York City to uncover a plot by the evil Saint Dane.

Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon enters a virtual world to defeat the evil Saint Dane and finds himself tempted to leave the real world behind.