Not very far from the big city is a very special farm. It's special because it grows special trees...Christmas trees The trees are able to stretch their graceful branches covered with needles and pine cones toward the sun as they grow taller and taller-all but one.

Upton Charles is a lot like you and me. He likes to be with his family, play with his Friends and go on nice walks. Except Upton isn't like you and me...because he is a little white dog, a Bichon Frise (that's "BEE-shon free-ZEY"). Upton is also very smart and knows an important clue when he smells one. Our dog detective is recruited to help find the Van Camp diamonds that have disappeared from the local museum. Join Upton as he sniffs out evidence to find a valuable missing necklace in Disappearing Diamonds.

Upton Charles and his family are in New Hampshire for a weekend ski vacation and our canine investigator meets three Saint Bernards. But it would not be an Upton Charles adventure without a mystery. Our sleuth is a Bichon Frise (that's "BEE-shon free-ZEY"), who is quickly on the trail of a long-lost treasure map, buried gold, and the papers of Daniel Webster. The fire is warm, but the case is never cold. Come along with Upton as he considers two-hundred-year-old clues to solve the mystery in Winter Wonderland.

How could it possibly happen? When a convicted murderer, Billy O'Brien, serving two consecutive life sentences, is suddenly released from a maximum security prison due to a clerical error, a massive man-hunt ensues. Not only are the BPD and Massachusetts State Police trying to fi nd the escaped convict - but so are the FBI and the CIA - and the Mob - each for entirely different reasons. Chris Callahan is a retired Boston homicide detective, who also happens to be O'Brien's childhood friend...and the officer who put him behind bars. The entire law enforcement community agrees on only one thing: Callahan is the only one who can bring him in...alive.