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Fenton Hardy, the famous private detective and father of the Hardy Boys, asks his sons to help him with his latest case involving a criminal named Snattman and the illegal drug trade smuggling of stolen drugs. Hardy directs Frank and Joe to a house on the cliff, whose location overlooking Barmet Bay offers an excellent vantage point to watch for smugglers. The Hardys are tricked into the house by cries for help, and are trapped for a short time in...
22) Blood shot
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 5
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“No one, male or female, writes better P.I. books than Paretsky.”—The Denver Post
V. I. Warshawski isn’t crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem—after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past,...
V. I. Warshawski isn’t crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem—after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. But when V.I. starts probing into the past,...
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Mandie mysteries volume 1
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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.
24) The dragon turn
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Boy Sherlock Holmes volume 5
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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.
25) Ransom
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Five high school students from a wealthy neighborhood are kidnapped while on their way home in the school bus and try to find a way to escape their captors while their parents scrape to meet the ransom demands.
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 16
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One by one they knock on the door of the incomparable Nero Wolfe, each with a case more perplexing than the one before. First comes the niece of a man who committed suicide by jumping naked into a geyser, only to return just in time to be murdered. Then it’s the strange case of the murder victim’s family covering up for the real killer, while a chef stews in jail. Finally a master horticulturist discovers the woman he wants to marry: dead...
28) Callander Square
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Someone on posh Callander Square will kill to keep a secret in this “superior” mystery from the New York Times–bestselling author of Twenty-One Days (The San Diego Union-Tribune).
When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector Thomas Pitt into their well-ordered...
When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector Thomas Pitt into their well-ordered...
29) Killer
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Pretty little liars volume 6
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Former best friends Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer continue to live in fear as they struggle to keep even more secrets hidden and someone new begins stalking them via their cell phones.
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Boxcar children volume 73
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The Aldens try to help a visiting Russian gymnast who is surrounded by mysterious people and events and who seems to have a secret.
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Peter Shandy mysteries volume 6
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On Groundhog Day, secrets surface alongside a waterlogged corpse The rural town of Balaclava greets Groundhog Day as an excuse for one last cold-weather fling. The students and faculty of the local agricultural college drink cocoa, throw snowballs, and, when the temperature allows, ice skate. Oozak's Pond is not quite frozen this year, though, and as the Groundhog Day celebrations reach their peak, the students see someone bobbing through the ice....
34) Detective camp
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While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, Dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings.
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Boxcar children volume 76
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The Aldens participate in a three-day bicycle ride and soon find that someone seems to be intent on keeping others from completing the event.
36) January joker
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Seven-year-olds Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy make observations and gather clues that convince them that their older siblings, cousin, and animals have been captured by hungry space aliens.
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Boxcar children volume 23
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Someone is trying to put Aunt Jane's motel out of business, but the Alden children aren't going to let that happen.
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 10
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When a client of hers is murdered, detective Sharon McCone discovers that the dead man had disinherited his children and left his estate to four strangers, all with ties to a distant crime.
39) Inspector Hopper
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Inspector Hopper and his perpetually hungry assistant McBugg solve three mysteries for their insect friends.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 4
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When a calf is murdered, Hank, the wiley Cowdog and Head of Ranch Security, pursues a gang of wild dogs and a clan of coyotes to find the killer.