Mysteries And Detective Stories category: 4904 books

Rookie detectives Lark and Connor Ba are back on the case! When a pair of diamond earrings goes missing from the neighborhood general store, Lark and Connor just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Carefully mining the adults for clues, the twin sleuths work together to solve the mystery....

One creepy curator, two missing skulls, three batty bats, four funny friends and too many bones! An ordinary trip to see the dinosaurs at Chicago's Field Museum turns into a riot of mystery and laughs as four real kids gallivant all over town trying to learn about Chicago's past in order to solve...

Mimi inherits a gold mine-the Gold Bug! On summer break, Christina and Grant join their mystery book-writing grandmother and cowboy pilot grandfather, Papa, on an adventure to check out the mine and discover a mystery that could mean boom or bust! LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places,...

Mystery-writing Mimi, along with Papa, Christina, and Grant, visit a place few people have gone before – Antarctica! Scientists at the worlds c-c-coldest and windiest continent roll out an icy welcome mat for the group – but someone doesnt want them snooping in his b-b-business! Bundle up and...

One very Blue Ridge! One crazy quilt! One fearless fiddler! One hoot in a holler! And a Smoky secret! Christina, Grant, Mimi and Papa head to the Great Smoky Mountains and end up in an A+ Appalachian mystery complete with an eerie mountain haze, spectacular scenery, a boisterous bear, confounding...

You could say deadly Diamond Shoals was ìground zeroî for shipwrecks, once upon a time. In the era before lighthouses and before lifesavers, an enormous swatch of sneaky, shifting sandy shoals worked like skeletal fingers to snatch up ships and sink them! When Papa has to emergency land The Mystery...

What is planned as a pleasure trip to the city by the bay (San Francisco), turns out to be a topsy-turvy mystery with new friends helter-skelter through Chinatown, Lombardy, and even Alcatraz Prison one dark, foggy night. LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! San...

It's a looooong plane flight from Georgia to South Africa for Grant, Christina, Papa, and the kids' mystery-writing grandmother Mimi! They're going on a safari! Grant can't wait to see the ìBig Fiveî-lions, elephants, Cape buffalo, rhinos, and leopards. But he and Christina end up seeing much more-and...

You belong in a zoo! Christina tells her brother Grant with a grin. But grins soon turn to grimaces as Mimi, Papa, Christina and Grant head for the zoo and find that there's trouble in Paradise! A mystery is afoot, but whose foot is it...well, you'll just have to read the story to see! Learn zoo animal...

An edge-of-the-seat adventure! - Publisher's Weekly (starred review). Seventeen-year-old Arden Munro has been raised by her older brother, Scott, ever since the death of their parents 10 years earlier. He has been her only family. But now Scott too is dead--or so believe the local police and everyone...

In this adventure, Ms. Bogus' class goes back in time to the pioneer era. They learn (a lot more than they want to!) about he Dust Bowl, sodbusting, Prairie Schooners, and much more while having fun (well mostly!) and return to class smarter, appreciating what they have, and also, a little dustier. This...

Twelve nuggets of gold, six sick dogs, four c-c-cold kids, too many miles and one wild & scary ride! Four real kids head north to Alaska just in time for the Iditarod Trail dogsled race and find themselves in the cold about a mystery that takes digging through Gold Rush history to solve! LOOK...

No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory! Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even on a boat ride. Cam and Eric are enjoying a boat trip around the city when there is an onboard theft. A poodle who wears a jewel-encrusted...

It's field trip day in Cam and Eric's class. Only where is Eric's permission slip? He had it on the bus, but now it's gone! Did someone take it? Did it blow away? After a few red herrings, Cam's click-click memory kicks in just in time for Eric to join the class on their field trip to the zoo. Perfect...