mystery and detective stories

While visiting the seaport town of Ragged Cove, Massachusetts, the Alden children find the ship's log of the Flying Cloud, shipwrecked in 1869, supposedly during a mutiny.

The Boxcar children investigate when ice cream and other items start disappearing from their favorite ice cream parlor.

Gwen and Jill determine to win the weekly sandcastle contest on the beach but something always seems to go wrong.

Two amateur detectives investigate a haunting of their school that starts around Halloween.

While their family is away, Harold and Chester, a dog and a cat, are boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow where Chester becomes increasingly alarmed by the strange behavior of his fellow guests and the sudden disappearance of one of them.

When she investigates the mysterious light up on Hogback Hill, eleven-year-old Hadley finds and befriends a hunchbacked old woman with a tragic past.

After reading three mysteries in a row, Jenny becomes convinced that the neighbors across the street are up to no good and decides to investigate.

Anthony Monday and Miss Eells recover a magic lamp that was stolen from a warlock's tomb and is spreading evil to further the wicked ends of the thief.

Fifth grade sleuth Cam Jansen and her friend Eric combine wits to solve the disappearance of a young French girl.