mystery and detective stories

While on a bicycle trip across Holland, Miss Mallard runs into danger when she unwittingly uncovers a smuggling operation.

Nancy Drew, the teen detective, and her friend, Ned Nickerson, find a pirate chest filled with gold coins in the hold of an old showboat.

While setting up a homeless shelter at the church, Sebastian and his friends, Corrie and David, solve the mystery of a dead man found in an abandoned inn.

After the new hydrofoil they are guarding is stolen, the Hardy boys face frequent danger in solving a mystery involving criminals who operate by signs of the zodiac.

Vicious traps and threats beset Frank and Joe as they search for two stolen, famous paintings in an old fort said to be inhabited by a ghost. One of the paintings is a clue to the hiding place of a chain of gold.

Sensible eleven-year-old Mary Rose, constantly at odds with her imaginative seven-year-old sister Jo-Beth, finds that they need to work together when an unplanned visit to a strange shoe museum and house of magic illusions involves them in the disappearance of a Chinese emperor's shoes.

Harvey finds himself embroiled in a mystery when a monkey appears at his bedroom window in the middle of the night.

Normally fearful to play basketball in front of a crowd, Kelly becomes a confident and aggressive player when she dons a mysterious pair of red sneakers that she finds.

Mark and his pet skunk, Sheldon, outwit a pair of train robbers.

Amazing boy detective Piet and his friend Amy track down clues that lead to the solution of elevator tie-ups and crime.