detective and mystery fiction

Stella, eleven, gets her dreamed-of adventure when something she should not have seen in the damp, dull hotel where she lives with three dreadful aunts on a cliff above Withering-by-Sea sends her on the run from stage magician Professor Starke and his thugs, eluding danger, making new friends, and facing questions about herself.

"Ever since they formed the Curious Cat Spy Club, Kelsey, Becca, and Leo have been perfecting their spy skills, from decoding messages to picking locks. So when a mysterious stranger arrives in town claiming to own Becca's beloved zorse, Zed, the club is on the case! There's something suspicious about Caleb Hunter and the way Zed acts around him. Caleb seems charming, but Kelsey's not so sure."--Dust jacket.

Ater her spy notebook of secrets goes missing and she receives a ransom note, Kelsie tries to solve the mystery on her own but soon realizes she needs everyone in the Curious Cat Spy Club to rescue the notebook, help a homesick 130-year-old Aldabra tortoise, and unmask a thief.

"Small-town journalist Claire Abbott has a sixth sense, what the fire chief calls a "radar for crime." When a string of suspicious fires breaks out in town, Claire thinks she knows who the firebug is. Or does she? She finds there is much more to the story than she imagined. Worse, no one will believe her. The firebug is getting bolder, and the fires he sets more dangerous. Claire is now in a race against time to catch the arsonist in the act before he takes a life"--Back cover.

"Keno a bill collector is unwittingly drawn into a murder investigation when he witnesses a serial killer fleeing the scene of a crime"--Publisher.

"Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins ... At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for--and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong"--Provided by publisher.

"This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure s academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy's mom really marry Doorman Dave?"--Provided by OCLC.

Winter has come to River Heights, and the girls are busy making a snowman--affectionately named Sherlock. They are distracted, however, by one of their classmates. It seems Deirdre has changed her name to Madame Chocolata, and she's reading marshmallows to tell fortunes. Then Sherlock disappears, and an outbreak of pranks plagues the kids. Could Sherlock have come to life--or is someone less frosty behind everything?.

"An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump"--Amazon.com.

Timmy Failure, founder, president, and CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps the nation, is about to crack the biggest case of his generation: a school competition to find a stolen globe.