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The mystery of the secret message

1996
While helping their grandfather prepare for Greenfield's Winter Festival, the Alden children uncover a mystery surrounding the statue in the town square.

The mystery of the stolen music

1995
The Alden children are thrilled when a famous orchestra comes to their town to perform, and when an original Mozart score turns up missing, they solve the mystery of its disappearance.

The mystery on stage

1994
The Aldens become involved in a community theater production of "The Wizard of Oz," which is systematically and mysteriously being sabotaged.

The guide dog mystery

1996
When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger.

The firehouse mystery

1997
The Alden children draw upon their resourcefulness to save the neighborhood firehouse from being torn down, while they also face a series of mysterious incidents connected with it.

Encyclopedia Brown and the case of the mysterious handprints

1985
The ten-year-old detective continues his war on crime in Idaville through ten more cases, for which the reader is invited to guess the solution before it is revealed.

The Easter mystery

1981
When Susan and Mike suspect that thieves may be plotting the theft of a valuable Easter egg, they organize their neighbors to ward off the crooks.

The case of the ghostwriter

2000
Jigsaw and Mila investigate when their teacher announces that a writer whose identity is a secret will visit their class.

Encyclopedia Brown carries on

1980
Once again America's 10-year-old Sherlock Holmes in sneakers is called upon to help his police-chief father and the neighborhood children solve 10 mysteries.

The secret of the caves

1992
Frank and Joe solve a mystery involving the disappearance of a professor, a hot-tempered hermit, sabotage at the new Bayport Coastal Radar Station, and the Honeycomb Caves.

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