detective and mystery stories

When a thief steals money from her mom's Garbage Busters project, Stephanie, a sixth grader, identifies herself as "Stevie Diamond, Detective" and sets off to find the culprit.

Ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers, solves a series of brainteasing mysteries plaguing his hometown of Idaville.

Basil, the brilliant mouse detective, searches for a toymaker who has been kidnapped by the evil criminal Ratigan. What is Ratigan planning?.

A rebus story in which Scooby-Doo and the gang think the "haunted" house they created for Halloween really is haunted when the faces on their jack-o'-lanterns change.

While visiting his friend Jeannie's eccentric Aunt Rosebud in a boarding house that may be haunted, ten-year-old Chad comes across a mystery involving a missing diamond bracelet.

The author recalls events from her childhood that contributed to her development as a writer.

Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers, continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.

Encyclopedia Brown, boy detective, solves ten more mysteries. The solutions are given at the end of the book.

Siblings Grant and Christina spend their summer vacation exploring the Great Lakes with their grandparents, Mimi and Papa, but along the way, the family encounters mysteries involving shipwrecks, haunted lighthouses, and island intrigue.

Christina, Grant, Raven, and Hunter arrive in north Alaska for the Iditarod Trail dogsled race just in time to pursue a runaway team with a renegade musher.