mystery fiction

When the original Star Spangled Banner is stolen, seventh-graders Anne, Jos?, and Henry, all descendants of the Silver Jaguar Society, pursue suspects on airport carts and through baggage handling tunnels while stranded at a Washington, D.C., airport during a snowstorm.

Snatched from the slums of Victorian London, a fur-covered boy lives in misery as a side-show freak at the mercy of a cruel and abusive showman, however, Wild Boy's furry exterior conceals a sharp mind--one he uses to solve a murder and build a better life.

When an epidemic hits New Mouse City, Geronimo must discover the source before he, too, is covered in blue spots.

Max Monroe, after discovering a detective agency in his grandfather's backyard, befriends the ghost of his great-uncle and the two join forces to solve the mystery of a missing birthday girl.

Contains two Jigsaw Jones mysteries in which the kid detective and his sidekick Mila search for clues to the whereabouts of Jigsaw's missing dog, Rags; and the duo looks for the source of the smell that is making science class uncomfortable.

Reverend Clare Fergusson teams up with her friend Russ Van Alystyne to try and find the killer who is stalking the members of her parish.

When a grisly murder occurs on a Scottish island, Edinburgh detective Fin Macleod must confront his past if he is ever going to discover if the killing has a connection to another one that took place on the mainland.

Seventeen-year-old Sam seems to have everything until she and her best friend, Cassie, disappears one night and now Sam has returned with amnesia, striving to be a much better person and aware that her not remembering may be the only thing keeping her alive.

In Agatha Christie's first book, Hercule Poirot solves a baffling murder at an English country home.

Bailey Ruth Raeburn, always great at solving mysteries, is thrilled to discover in death that she can play an even bigger role in lending a helping hand--especially when she sees that there is a dead man on the porch of Kathleen, a pastor's wife, and that the pastor is sure to become a suspect.