mystery stories

The MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK is a sequence of carefully crafted pictures and clever captions, with plot, character, and theme eliminated, to allow the student to create stories based on the pictures. Includes worksheets, as well as a set of questions about each picture.

Relocating to Charleston after a particularly grueling case, Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice but is quickly targeted by local politics and a covert saboteur before a series of violent deaths brings her skills into high view.

When Mrs. McGregor, the Aldens' housekeeper, learns that she cannot afford to keep the Crooked House, the Aldens want to help.

Nancy Harmon runs away to escape the terrible secret of her past. She marries and has two children. Then a story breaks about a murder trial with a picture of a woman who looks like Nancy. The next morning her children disappear.

While investigating the theft of several valuable Pennsylvania Dutch weather vanes, the Hardys uncover a startling twist in the case. The stolen weather vanes point directly to the nation's captial - and to a serious breach in national security!.