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Would my fortune cookie lie?
Par Stella Pevsner. 1996
Alexis Dawson, thirteen, and her best friend, Suzy Wing, live in the same condo building in Chicago. Alexis's mother wants…
to move to the suburbs, but her father has other plans. And Suzy thinks she is being followed by a stranger. For grades 5-8Dover: the collected short stories
Par Joyce Porter. 1995
Eleven stories published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between 1968 and 1985. Vulgar British Chief Inspector Dover fits his investigations…
around his more important activities: eating, drinking, smoking, sleeping, and going to the bathroom. Includes a foreword on Porter's work by writer Robert Barnard and an afterword by Porter's brotherSpirit seeker
Par Joan Nixon. 1995
Holly Campbell is furious with her police detective father. Once again he is working late, missing an anniversary celebration with…
her mother. But when Mr. Campbell does arrive, he has some shocking news: Holly's boyfriend may be a suspect in the murder of his parents. For junior and senior high readersTales of mystery and imagination (The Everyman library)
Par Edgar Poe. 1996
Forty-six popular tales including "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Premature Burial," "The Black Cat," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Murders…
in the Rue Morgue," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Oblong Box," and "The Purloined Letter." Some violenceSebastian (super sleuth) and the flying elephant
Par Mary Christian. 1994
Sebastian is a dog who loves to solve mysteries. Shortly after the circus comes to Sebastian's town, Tahsha, the beloved…
elephant, disappears. Sebastian and his police-detective human begin to analyze clues. For grades 2-4Stress
Par Loren Estleman. 1996
Companion to Edsel (BR 10156). It is New Year's Eve 1972 when a Detroit cop moonlighting at a posh party…
shoots and kills three intruders. On the case is officer Charlie Battle, who knows the department is protecting its own yet doggedly pursues the truth up to the startling courtroom climax. Strong language and descriptions of sexThe pizza puzzle
Par Susan Pfeffer. 1996
The day after Taryn learns her father may be having an affair, she gets in trouble for not concentrating in…
class. Fuming at her teacher's insensitivity, Taryn describes to her friends a prank she'd like to pull on the teacher to get even. The next day Taryn is shocked to learn that someone has actually carried out her plan--and she is being blamed! For grades 5-8The cat who tailed a thief
Par Lilian Braun. 1997
A rash of petty thievery, newcomers in Pickax, a wedding, and a couple of murders Down Below keep Qwilleran, who…
has bought a condo for the winter, and his cats, KoKo and Yum Yum, busy during the holiday season. Bestseller"G" is for gumshoe
Par Sue Grafton. 1990
Kinsey Millhone has just taken the job of locating Irene Gersh's mother, Agnes, who has not been heard from for…
six months. Then Kinsey learns there is a contract out on her own life. As she pursues Agnes, Kinsey works under the watchful and romantically interested eye of security expert Robert Dietz. Strong language. BestsellerUnder my skin: a Hannah Wolfe mystery
Par Sarah Dunant. 1995
London private investigator Hannah Wolfe is hired when someone begins sabotaging Castle Dean, a women's health spa. Hannah soon identifies…
the staff member who put maggots in the yogurt and pulled other pranks to ruin business. But whoever paid the saboteur has also targeted the spa owner's plastic-surgeon husband and is still at large. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexThe edge of the crazies
Par Jamie Harrison. 1995
Archaeologist Jules Clement has returned to his hometown of Blue Deer, Montana, at the edge of the Crazy Mountains, where…
he follows in his late father's footsteps as sheriff. He finally has a case of substance when someone shoots screenwriter George Blackwater through his office window. George survives, but when his bitter wife becomes a target, she is less fortunate, which eliminates her as Clement's main suspect. Strong language and violenceThe bones in the cliff
Par James Stevenson. 1995
Pete and his father are on the run because someone is after his father. They are staying on an island…
for the summer, but Pete must check the ferry every day to make sure a man with a cigar doesn't arrive. Pete meets Rootie, an eleven-year-old girl who summers at the island every year. With her Pete can explore, play games, and forget about the danger--until the cigar man arrives. Some strong language. For grades 4-7The hound of the Baskervilles: another adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Par Arthur Doyle. 1994
The evil of Sir Hugo, master of the lonely Baskerville manor on the moors, began the curse of the Baskervilles…
in the seventeenth century. Now, generations later, the legendary hound howls and Sir Charles Baskerville dies. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson move in to solve the crime. Includes introduction by editor W.W. Robson and Doyle's chronologyOctober moon
Par Michael Scott. 1992
Rachel Stone, fifteen, and her parents are in Ireland to visit the four-hundred-year-old house and horse farm they have just…
bought, and Rachel looks forward to the chance to do some riding. Then some rather strange accidents begin to happen, and they all seem directed toward Rachel. Rachel slowly discovers that members of an ancient clan plan to pass a curse on to her on Halloween. For grades 6-9Bay of sorrows
Par Gaylord Dold. 1995
For Deputy Sheriff Tom Poole, life has become as suffocating as the acrid and thick air on the Texas Gulf…
coast. He is tired of corpses, but he knows that the old Vietnamese fisherman shot through the head was not a suicide, contrary to the bloated sheriff's decree. Even clashes between local and Vietnamese shrimpers don't account for what Poole begins to uncover. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sexSpare parts
Par Rick Hanson. 1994
Ex-cop turned sculptor Adam McCleet lives in fear of his sister Margot. Now Margot is demanding that Adam find the…
latest of her many husbands, orthodontist Phillip Stang, who went to Seattle for a convention but failed to check in with her. This is so uncharacteristic of the staid Phil that Adam reluctantly agrees to go to Seattle to play detective. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexWhen death comes stealing
Par Valerie Wesley. 1994
Now a private detective, Tamara Hayle quit her job on the police force when her young son, Jamal, was harassed…
by cops just because he was black. Her ex-husband, DeWayne Curtis, has four other sons all by different women. When two of the sons die, DeWayne begs Tamara to find out if someone killed them. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexMissing Joseph
Par Elizabeth George. 1993
When the St. Jameses visit Lancashire, they are shocked to learn that an acquaintance, the vicar, has died of poisoning.…
They are also disturbed because the constable handling the case is having an affair with Juliet Spence, the herbalist responsible for the "accidental" poisoning. But, since the vicar was trying to help Juliet with her troubled thirteen-year-old daughter, would she kill him? Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexMurder at the God's gate: a Lord Meren mystery
Par Lynda Robinson. 1995
The young pharaoh Tutankhamun is beset by problems: a crumbling empire, invaders at the gates, and unrest within his court.…
Pharaoh's adviser, Lord Meren, suspects a conspiracy and uses ingenious investigative methods to uncover a plot that threatens the Egyptian empire. Sequel to Murder in the Place of Anubis (BR 10186)The valley of fear
Par Arthur Doyle. 1994
Sherlock Holmes grapples with the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty to solve a foul murder that takes place in a Sussex…
manor house. The investigation uncovers an earlier and grimmer history of lawlessness and wholesale slaughter in a mining valley in the United States. Includes Doyle's chronology and an introduction by editor Owen Dudley Edwards