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1) Scared stiff
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Overview: Rick and Kenny's Pa was right -- troubles really do happen in threes. First Pa's truck was robbed, then Pa ran off, leaving Rick, Kenny, and Ma to fend for themselves, and now Ma has disappeared, too. Rick just knows Ma would never leave them on purpose -- but then, where is she? Waiting in Uncle Henry's trailer park doesn't seem like the best way to find out. Instead, the brothers, along with their new friends, Connie and Julie, decide...
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Nate the Great volume 1
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
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60 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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When Annie tells him about her missing painting, Nate the Great and his trusted companion, Sam Spade, set out to investigate, gather clues, and solve the mystery.
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2016.
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"When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But...
6) Off the grid
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Monkeewrench volume 6
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When a series of grisly murders occur after a Monkeewrench Software partner thwarts an assassination attempt on a retired FBI agent, Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth struggle to link the three crimes and learn of similar murders around the United States.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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463 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger's Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series, featuring fifteen talented authors and a multitude of new cases for Arthur Conan Doyle's most acclaimed detective. Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. Almost immediately, the detective's genius, mastery, and heroism became the standard by which other creators measured...
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Nancy Drew diaries volume 20
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While attending a fancy party hosted by Duchess Strickland, a wealthy philanthropist who owns a priceless art collection, teenaged Nancy Drew finds a new mystery to investigate when the goddess statue disappears.
10) A woman scorned
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"Vancouver city councilor George Hamilton Nash has left his wife and moved into a posh West End condo. when the wwealthy man-about-town turns up dead, a suicide,note beside the body, the police are prepared to treat it as an open and shut case. But Sebastian Casey, who covers city hall for the West End Clarion, is not so sure. He knows something of Nash's reputation as a lady's man and very quickly discovers no shortage of suspects. The question...
11) The chef
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Caleb Rooney volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty--as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney makes a pair of unthinkable discoveries. His beloved city is under threat of attack. And these would-be terrorists...
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Egmont UK Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
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ii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Twelve mysteries. Twelve authors. One challenge: can YOU solve the crimes before the heroes of the stories? These are twelve brand-new short stories from twelve of the best children's crime writers writing today. These creepy, hilarious, brain-boggling, heart-pounding mysteries feature daring, brilliant young detectives, and this anthology is a must for fans of crime fiction and detection, especially the Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, The Roman...
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Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 323 pages ; 20 cm
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"An anthology of classic murder mysteries--the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by the most famous practitioners. These are not the usual suspects. When Edgar finalist Michael Sims formed the line-up for The Penguin Book of Murder, he did not include the familiar classics that you can find anywhere. Although he wanted to explore the first century of murder mysteries (from 1827 to 1924), he sought out the unfamiliar, the unjustly...
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"En Barkley Cove, un tranquilo pueblo de pescadores, circulan extraños rumores sobre la “chica de la marisma”. Desde los seis años, Kya deambula completamente sola entre canales y cañaverales, apenas cubierta y descalza. Aunque solo asiste un día a la escuela, la marisma y sus criaturas no tienen secretos para ella: la alimentan, la acunan, la protegen, son sus maestros y compañeras de juego. Kya aprende a descifrar los signos de la naturaleza...
17) You will be mine
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Lylah's five best friends and roomates at a university begin receiving threatening letters on Valentine's Day before being murdered, one by one.
18) Sherlock academy
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Future House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015].
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204 pages ; 21 cm.
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Teachers in disguise, secret libraries, hollow books... All these and more await eleven-year-old Rollie Wilson at the mysterious Sherlock Academy of Fine Sleuths. When Rollie and his best friend, Cecily, are invited to attend a school where children learn the art of detection just like the great Sherlock Holmes, they discover a strange burglary has been committed and a mystery is afoot. Determined to investigate, Rollie discovers that appearances...
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