detective and mystery stories

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

The local police prove unhelpful when a 500-pound dinosaur skull vanishes from a secret excavation on Sage's family's ranch, so Teddy and his friends conduct their own investigation.

Convinced that this will be the perfect summer, 12-year-old Peyton finds her life taking a dramatic detour when she becomes obsessed with finding the driver responsible for the hit-and-run accident that left a (cute) boy in a coma.

"Scholarship student Rachel keeps to herself at Manchester Prep, preferring the company of horror films to trust fund babies. When a prank puts her on the radar of a mysterious student society, 'The Mary Shelley Club', they subject her to a number of escalating Fear Tests which eventually puts them on the radar of a serial killer"--OCLC.

"Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). Leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of Eleanor and his friend David, a Jewish refugee--and, of course, his trusty pup, Little Roo--Bertie must decipher the notebook in time to stop a double agent from spilling the biggest secret of all to the Nazis"--OCLC.

Seventeen-year-old Bridget is both an employee of author RM Haldon and his biggest fan, so when she starts to receive cryptic emails from him after he goes missing, she teams up with her friend to find Haldon.

"What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it's a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill--or else everyone dies"--Provided by publisher.

Relates the efforts of teens Elayah, Liam, Jorja, and Marcie to solve a 1986 murder, and the actions of their then-teenaged parents leading up to the crime.

Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.

"The five Pathfinders search for the legendary Windrose treasure by solving puzzles in the mysterious caverns beneath the town"--Provided by publisher.