Central Kansas Library System

Just as I'm gearing up to help plan the Mahoney Library's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration, the beautiful old clock, the very centerpiece of the library, is stolen. There's nothing like a good theft to stop a party! Naturally, I throw down the streamers and get to work. Turns out lots of people wanted that clock -- and what's inside. If I don't hustle, this might become two crimes instead of one ...

Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he investigates such cases as whether a diary of George Washington's mother is authentic, or if a UFO picture supposedly taken by the army is real.

In 1900, Mandie is searching her dead uncle's mansion for a missing will when she finds a secret tunnel and strangers who claim to be her relatives.

Alistair Hemsworth produces a real and very dreadful dragon as Sherlock Holmes and Irene Doyle celebrate Irene's sixteenth birthday. But then the magician is arrested by Inspector Lestrade and his son because they have found blood in Hemsworth's secret workshop and Hemsworth's rival has disappeared. There is no body. Has Hemsworth killed the man since he has also stolen his wife.

When he gets blamed for one of Eddy the raccoon's tricks that backfires, Hank's search for the missing Eddy leads him and his sidekick Drover to a haunted house.

While investigating the theft of a valuable idol, Frank and Joe enounter a terrified business woman, a walking mummy, and a weird glass eye.

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.

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! Super Detectives! Karen loves solving mysteries. She even starts her own detective agency with her best friends, Nancy and Hannie. As head detective, Karen knows how to use a special Decod-R ring and how to dust for fingerprints. Being a detective is gigundo fun. But now Karen's pet rat, Emily Junior, is missing! Can Karen solve...

Nancy and her friends help a woman search for her missing grandson.

"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--