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Horten's incredible illusions

magic, mystery & another very strange adventure
2012
Ten-year-old Stuart, having become the junior curator of the museum exhibition showcasing his great-uncle Tony's long-lost magic, enters the magical world of the workshop once more to find Tony's will and is faced with a series of puzzles that become harder and harder to solve.

Captive heart

1995
Nancy and Ned investigate a gang of pirates that are hijacking million-dollar yachts off the Caribbean coast of Belize.

October moon

1994
After moving to a horsebreeding farm in Ireland, fifteen-year-old Rachel and her parents are beset with a series of stable fires and mysterious accidents that always seem to have Rachel as their target.

The alien factor

1993
Tom Swift has an encounter with an alien being. As a result an intelligence agency believes he is involved in a smuggling ring, so they send Frank and Joe to check him out.

Stormsearch

1992
Tim Vaux's discovery of an antique model ship on an English beach leads him to an unsolved family mystery involving a London heiress, a heartbroken drunkard, and the fanatic miser Black Idris.

Secret in the old mansion

1988
Horace and Mildred Flopbottom hire the young professionals of the Treasure Hounds organization to find out where Aunt Henrietta stashed her fortune before she died. Also includes two descriptions of actual treasures which have never been found.

Too many traitors

1988
When Frank and Joe's tour guide is murdered, they find themselves running from the law in Spain's Costa del Sol.

The mysterious disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)

1971
The disappearance of her husband is only the first of the mysteries Mrs. Carillon must solve.

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