A boring vacation turns into another spellbinding adventure for intrepid elderly sleuth Miss Jane Marple. Every day seems the same in the warm West Indies sunshine-until Major Palgrave dies, suddenly thrusting Miss Marple into a most exotic murder investigation.

Vicious traps and threats beset Frank, Joe, and Chet as they search for two stolen, famous paintings in an old fort said to be inhabited by a ghost. One of the paintings is a clue to the hiding place of a chain of gold.

When fifth-grader Cam notices that the prizes for the most difficult game at the school carnival are rapidly disappearing, she uses her amazing photographic memory to investigate.

Attempts are made against Nancy's life when she accepts a case in Honolulu. She must decipher strange symbols written on a piece of paper in order to learn the mystery behind an estate inherited by her client.

Adventure fiction. Freddy the Pig stars in two adventures. In the first, fresh from reading about Sherlock Holmes, Freddy is drafted to solve several disappearances on Bean farm. In the second, the porcine hero and his friends escape the drafty barn for a vacation in sunny Florida. 9 yrs+

After the new hydrofoil they are guarding is stolen, the Hardy boys face frequent danger in solving a mystery involving criminals who operate by signs of the zodiac.

Frank and Joe unravel two mysteries, one involving a counterfeiting case and the other concerned with a national security case their father is working on.

Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man. The Boxcar children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things have happened in that house where long ago a man disappeared.

Nate the Great solves the mystery of the missing picture.

After a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower," the Hardy boys make an astonishing discovery.