detective and mystery stories

Draws from a variety of primary sources to examine the life and career of Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle, best remembered for his Sherlock Holmes stories and novels; and includes photographs, documents, and memorabilia.

In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.

A collection of fourteen mystery stories by such well-known authors as Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, M.R. James, Isak Dinesen, and others.

Kirsten Larson, a young Swedish girl on the Minnesota frontier, searches for an answer to the disappearance of her friend, Erik Sandahl, while her family and neighbors assume that he has skipped out on the harvest labor he promised and money he owes.

During World War II, Molly investigates the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market while volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital.

When her family moves to Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood in 1866, Addy, a former slave, discovers that her new home holds dangerous secrets--including one connected to the North Carolina plantation she escaped from only two years earlier. Includes an educational section on Reconstruction.

"Football is rough, but hazing can be deadly!".

Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, assists the police force with ten insoluble cases. Solutions are at the back of the book.