detective and mystery stories

Determined crime-solver Abby finds a purple and orange wallet that she thinks may belong to a murderer.

Big Max, the world's greatest detective, helps a king find his missing elephant.

The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-yearold mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.

Nancy Drew must use clues in a dead man's letters to find some unpublished musical manuscripts that will save an old man and his granddaughter from financial ruin.

Cam uses her photographic memory to find a shopping list that her dad lost at the library.

When Frank and Joe investigate threatening notes and a secret room in an old mansion, robbery and mistaken identity complicate matters.

The Hardy brothers interrupt their investigations of jewelry-store holdups to answer a plea from their cousin on a New Mexico cattle ranch.

A chance meeting with a stranger on the road provides the Hardy brothers with a clue to a gang of local burglars.

Frank and Joe investigate a walled estate guarded by savage dogs, where a businessman is hiding in fear of his life.

Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.