detective and mystery stories

When her father disappears mysteriously on a trucking job, eleven-year-old Buddy moves in with relatives she hardly knows and finds herself in a dysfunctional family with secrets about the past.

When the Alden children spend a week visiting at Pilgrim Village, they uncover the mystery behind the unusual happenings at the historic site.

While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the new trial of infamous murder suspect Pete Duffy, problems arise for their own kid lawyer. There's been a robbery, and Theo is the accused.

The Aldens get involved in questions about a boy's unusual behavior after they rent a lighthouse.

Nate the Great interrupts his backyard vacation to find his friend's lost grocery list--before lunch.

Nancy Drew investigates when a flowerbed outside of a zoo's monkey cage is damaged.

Mimi fascinates Christina and Grant as she recounts the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke Island, where a group of settlers vanished, with few clues as to what happened to them.

Jigsaw is in trouble when he loses his grandfather's watch.

Christina, Grant, and their friends learn about the U.S. Constitution and try to determine if the one on display is real or fake.

Hercule Poirot's mastery of detective skills is tested by a mysterious correspondent who predicts and then executes alphabetical murders.