detective and mystery stories

A series of fairly obvious clues help Jake Gander prove Red R. Hood's suspicions about her granny's strange new look.

Asks the reader to choose the plot path of a story in which a young detective--the reader--receives an anonymous call for help from a scary glass house built on the site of a Civil War prison.

When thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass try to uncover what is draining the life from the elderly Dr. Coote, they find themselves facing the forces of a manacing voodoo cult.

A wallet dropped by a scar-faced beggar sets the three investigators on the trail of bank robbers.

Johnny Dixon is plunged into a terrifying mystery-adventure when he removes a blue figurine called a ushabt. from church.

Now in fifth grade, Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey continue to combine their detective and scientific investigation skills to solve a variety of cases, involving a noisy laundry chute, a ruined flower show, and a ghost.

When Angela moves away for a year, her best friends Poco and Georgina and a mysterious classmate are convinced that the elderly Miss Bone, caretaker of Angela's house, is responsible for the inexplicable disappearance of her cat.

Presents nineteen mystery stories by a variety of authors including Agatha Christie, Ursula Le Guin, and Ray Bradbury.

Andrea believes a stolen artifact she views in the Bahamas should be returned to the Peruvian government. When the object disappears and a murder takes place, she begins asking questions.

On board the Continental Express, traveling from New York to San Francisco in 1906, fourteen-year-old amateur detective Fitz and a new friend, Justine Pinkerton, try to unravel a dangerous plot involving disguises, arsenic poisoning, and counterfeit money.