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Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > Adventure stories > Crime & mystery
Alonzo is missing due to a magic trick gone awry, and his favorite
teacher, Mr. Frost, has been arrested! The mystery centers on a
trunk that once belonged to the great Houdini, and now it's up to
two of Alonzo's closest friends, Peanut and Olivia, to find him and
free their teacher!
Hair, Hair, Everywhere Someone's been digging up Mrs. Ruston's tomatoes. She thinks it's Noelle's dog, Rover, and unless Noelle can find the real thief, Rover's in big trouble. It's the hairiest case yet for Mr. Merlin's Third-Grade Detectives. Hair in Mrs. Ruston's tomato patch, hair in Amber Lee's hamburger -- can Noelle and Todd comb through the evidence and solve the mystery?
An utterly addictive and twisty thriller, full of dark family secrets
and deadly stakes. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives
Out.
She came from nothing.
Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future.
Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire
fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why.
They had everything.
Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited.
It's filled with secrets and codes, and the old man's surviving
relatives - a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their'
money.
Now there's only one rule: winner takes all.
Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange
family is playing.
But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?
Trapped in a mansion with a murderer and a family of liars - how would you survive? A mind-blowing thriller from the author of THIS BOOK KILLS, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus.
When three girls are stranded at the grand Bramble Estate in the middle of a snowstorm, they stumble into a murder plot. Someone has poisoned wealthy Emily Vanforte in the middle of a family dinner - which means Devi, Lizzie and Jayne are trapped in the house with a killer and a mystery to solve.
With knives under floorboards, vanishing guns and secret passages in the walls, no one is safe and everyone is a suspect.
But in a house of liars and corruption, will the girls save themselves...or learn to fit in?
Disappearing hamsters? Vanishing toads? Missing snails? This needs
investigating. This looks like a case for Mina Mistry. Pets. Mina
doesn't have any. This is super inconvenient when it's Showcase
Your Pets week at school. Unfortunately, Mina's best friend Holly
doesn't have any pets either now that her hamster's gone missing.
And has anyone seen Danny's pet toad? An explosion at the local pet
shop shows Mina that this pet palaver can't be a coincidence. But
why is someone stealing all the animals? What do they want them
for? About the Mina Mistry Investigates series: Introducing Mina
Mistry, witty schoolgirl detective and soon-to-be Private
Investigator. Mina Mistry Investigates is a fun detective series
packed with comic-style illustrations and mystery-solving
throughout. Great for reluctant readers aged 7+ and fans of Dork
Diaries.
What Brynn Caldwell can't remember might get her killed. Brynn is a
promising science student recovering from a bad relationship that
sent her spiraling into depression. But as she puts the pieces of
her life back together, a few don't fit. Brynn is uncovering
memories of being abducted and possibly brainwashed. It's all
connected to a drug that might be an ultimate weapon: a tool to
control people's memories. Now, to stop a possible terrorist
attack, Brynn has to find out what she's been forced to forget -
and what side she's really on. Homeland meets Mr. Robot in this
fast-paced YA thriller. It's all told in the voice of an unreliable
narrator who endures betrayals from her boyfriend, her best friend,
her parents - and even herself.
Nineteen-year-old Max Mooth is a cyber sleuth, dedicated to
ensuring the safety and well-being of computers the world over.
Aiding him in this effort is his eight-year-old sleuthing partner,
Jake Zellner, who goes by the professional name, Mr. Z. Max's
nemesis, a millionaire named Xefland Aurcracker, has sworn revenge
against Max for getting him expelled from college four years ago,
and now the time has come to exact that revenge. Aurcracker does so
by hiring minions to create the most evil computer virus ever, the
Zombie Virus, and then having them launch it upon the world,
framing Max in the process. Furthermore, Aurcracker schemes to
steal away Max's love interest, Abby, in order to further defeat
him. So having only sixty hours to save the world's computers and
his good name, Max and Mr. Z finally devise a plan that might stop
the Zombie Virus--a plan that brings the fate of Max, Abby and
computers everywhere down to the bare wire.
An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic
Sherlock Holmes mystery - at an easy-to-read level for readers of
all ages! Also includes a QR code for the free audiobook! 'There
are no other beryls like these in the world, and they would be
impossible to replace. I leave it with you, Mr Holder, trusting
that it shall stay safe and sound.' Mr Holder's life is turned on
its head when a piece of the priceless crown he's been asked to
guard goes missing. The police have no clues and only one suspect:
Mr Holder's own son. Everyone's hopes lie with Sherlock Holmes. But
can the genius detective find the missing treasure before time runs
out?
An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic
Sherlock Holmes mystery - at an easy-to-read level for readers of
all ages! Also includes a QR code for the free audiobook! Sir - our
client, Mr Robert Ferguson, has made an enquiry concerning
vampires. Since we are an engineering firm, unfortunately the
matter is not one upon which we can advise. Perhaps you can help.
Holmes and Watson take on their strangest case yet when a
distraught husband comes to them desperate to understand his wife's
weird behaviour. He's caught her sucking the blood of their baby
son! But vampires don't exist ... or do they?
Updated covers revitalize the first two titles in our extremely
popular Five-Minute Mysteries series by Ken Weber, the master of
the succinct whodunit. This attractive new series look is sure to
appeal to young adults, introducing them to the lifelong literary
pleasures of mystery novels. Each book contains more than 30
baffling cases, each with an ingenious solution guaranteed to
challenge and entertain. Best of all, every mystery is short and
sweet -- easy to read in less time than it takes to microwave
popcorn!
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