detective and mystery stories

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High trail to danger

1991
In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life.

The throttlepenny murder

1989
Jessie Smith was just thirteen years old and never really meant to harm the old grocer. He was mean and miserly but the townspeople soon forgot that after he was murdered.

The murder book

an illustrated history of the detective story
1971

Warehouse rumble

2004
Frank and Joe hope to be among the first contestants in a reality-based game show called Warehouse Rumble. But when someone finds a skeleton on the set, production comes to a screeching halt.

Scooby-doo! and you

the case of the lost lumberjack
2000
The Scooby gang get away on a scenic vacation to the beautiful forests of Washington state. First stop--a historic sawmill. But fun time turns to run time when they meet the ghastly ghost of a lumberjack who's been missing for over fifty years!.

Cam Jansen and the mystery at the monkey house

1988
Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to solve a monkey smuggling mystery at the city zoo.

The pet day mystery

1989
Two hamsters mysteriously disappear on Pet Day at school. The children solve the mystery by gathering the facts.

The mystery of the missing scarf

1989
The Sherlock Street detectives study the facts to solve the mystery of the missing scarf.

The Reading Detective Club

solving the mysteries of reading : a teacher's guide
1999
Explains to teachers of grades 3-8 how to start a Reading Detective Club, which teaches reading strategies through special mystery cases that students are asked to solve. Includes thirteen reproducible pages and case analyses for teachers.

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