mystery and detective stories

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Tree house mystery

1969
Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years.

Grandpa's teeth

1998
Soon after Grandpa's teeth disappear from a glass of water near his bed, Inspector Rate has the whole town under investigation.

Nate the Great, San Francisco detective

2000
Nate the Great goes to San Francisco to solve a mystery with his cousin, Olivia Sharp, who is also a detective.

Nate the Great and the stolen base

1992
Nate the Great investigates the mysterious disappearance of the purple plastic octopus that his baseball team uses for second base.

Whooo's haunting the teeny tiny ghost?

1999
The teeny, tiny, very timid ghost tries to be brave when he suspects that his house is haunted.

The dark stairs

1994
The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case.

Cam Jansen and the mystery of the gold coins

1982
While using her photographic memory to find her missing science fair project, Cam accidently locates two valuable gold coins.

The ghosts of Mercy Manor

1993
Twelve-year-old Gwen, an orphan who comes to live with the Mercy family, discovers that the house is haunted by the ghost of a sad-looking young girl and is determined to solve the mystery behind her appearances.

The ghost and Mrs. Hobbs

2001
Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

Half-moon investigations

2006
Twelve-year-old Fletcher Moon, the youngest qualified private detective in the world, receives a diploma and gold-plated detective's shield after completing an Internet course, and sets out to solve petty crimes at school, but he forced to go on the run when, while investigating the town's biggest crime family, his badge is stolen and he is framed for several crimes he did not commit.

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