detective and mystery stories

Challenges readers to solve several "whodunits" by selecting, analyzing, and logically organizing the details of each of the stories included.

In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.

Sylvia Smith-Smith's first-prize essay has won her a trip to Oxford University to attend an international Shakespeare seminar. She is lonely in London until she agrees to give a 17-year-old genius lessons in love. Soon she finds her room ransacked and she is followed. Who is after her?.

Nancy, Bess, and George fly to Belgium to investigate when Nancy's submission to a magazine contest involving the solution to the disappearance of a priceless treasure turns up in another contestant's hands.

Gwen and Jill's discovery of some mutilated library books strangely links up with a dog show in which they have entered their dog.