mystery fiction

Sixth-grader Alton Barnes loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders he must obey to get the maps back, he might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them.

Nancy Drew investigates the secret of the old clock.

When dinosaur bones from a recent dig mysteriously go missing, and an unidentifiable beast starts attacking animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind, Abigail and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby, investigators of the supernatural in 1892 New England, find themselves hunting for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.

When a tiger goes missing from the Hong Kong Zoo, the Ninja Meerkats find a messy clue that puts them on the trail of the Ringmaster and his Circus Goons.

Mr. Clue's vacation gets put on hold when a famous actress asks for his help on the express train to find a thief.

When Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob the only key to the vault holding the Krabby Patty's secret recipe, SpongeBob and Patrick must keep it safe, until it is stolen by a passenger on their train.

In 1921 Celena Jackson fled Fire Island after her mother's tragic death and an unfulfilled promise to teach her younger brother Joshua the gospel which her embittered father Matthew, a lighthouse keeper, refused to allow. Five years later, when Matthew suffers serious injuries and Joshua pleads for Celena's help, she returns to her childhood home with a painful tangle of emotions--and the realization that someone on the island wants her gone.

Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to Acadia when the body of a young girl is found, and as she investigates the case, Temperance uncovers a startling link between the victim and her childhood friend, Evangeline, who disappeared more than twenty years earlier.