mystery fiction

Molly becomes weary and troubled in the spring of 1945 while doing her patriotic duty to help the U.S. win WWII, and when her father returns home safe, he seems slightly changed.

Eleven-year-old C?cile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.

After Rebecca meets a new family in her New York City apartment building and helps watch their fussy baby while they are moving in, she becomes convinced that they have been victimized by the kidnappers that have been operating in their neighborhood.

Ben and his friend Jill find themselves in danger when they discover the secret history of their Massachusetts school and set out to derail a developer's plan to level the building to make way for an amusement park.

A water fairy tells a sad love story of the beautiful mermaid Aroona that Jasmine doesn't believe until she finds the trail that leads to Aroona's lost treasure!.

The mermaid friends are excited about Mermaid Bay's annual carnival. But just before the carnival begins, the magical water pony is stolen. Can Rosa solve the case?.

Contains two novels by Christopher Pike, including "Slumber Party, " in which a group of teenage girls are reunited at a ski weekend eight years after a fire at a slumber party disfigured one of them and killed her sister; and "Weekend, " in which a dream weekend in Mexico at an oceanside mansion turns into a nightmare of terror.

Orphaned British teenager Scarlett Wakefield postpones her romance with the handsome son of the school groundskeeper in order to travel to Scotland with her American sidekick, Taylor, in search of clues to the murder of a boy who dropped dead after kissing Scarlett.

Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.

Profiles forty-nine mystery and detective fiction writers, describing their lives and contributions to the genre, analyzing their works, and providing selected primary and secondary bibliographies for each author.