mystery fiction

The Aldens visit a dinosaur dig in Montana and soon become involved in a mystery involving missing dinosaur bones.

To celebrate her birthday, George is taking Nancy and Bess on a bike tour around Mystic Lake, but when their tour guide disappears and unknown adversaries steal their supplies and slash their tires, Nancy begins looking for clues.

When Frank and Joe Hardy put a stop to the alarming, but mostly harmless, pranks of amateur moviemaker Seth Diller, a series of more dangerous copycat pranks leads them to a criminal group called the Red Arrow.

Frank and Joe Hardy don't need to be asked twice to be zombie extras in a movie that's filming in Bayport. One day while on set, the terror gets a little too real, as equipment fails and the set tumbles over, almost killing a famous actress. Frank and Joe are suspects, but they know they didn't do it. The Hardy boys will have to be detectives again.

When Joe and Frank Hardy, the Hardy Boys, investigate the disappearance of one of Bayport's historic statues--swallowed up by a sinkhole--they discover a forgotten underground city, which has been taken over by a band of criminals with cult-like plans of taking over Bayport for themselves.

Frank and Joe Hardy attend the rodeo in town and catch someone trying to steal a prized horse. They are recruited to help drive the cattle back to the rodeo's dude ranch on horseback. Their trip is sabotaged several times and the brothers race to find who's responsible before someone gets hurt.

Frank and Joe Hardy investigate the theft of rare aquatic animals, including Captain Hook the five-hundred-pound sea turtle, from the Bayport Aquarium.

Camping on Black Bear Mountain, Frank, Joe, and the conservation club wake up to find a bear roaming the campsite and their teacher missing. On their search for their teacher, the boys encounter a mad ax-man, dangerous waterfalls, and the forest's ever-present black bears.

After a string of robberies in Bayport, Frank and Joe Hardy receive riddles in the mail offering clues that point to the thief's next target--the priceless Emerald of Astara--and daring the boys to interfere.

Frank and Joe Hardy go undercover on their high school's basketball team to find out who is kidnapping, beating, and blackmailing players to boost the players' performance.