"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the game. All they have to do is...

Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.

Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious twelve-year-old detective.

In spite of a phony clue and trouble from a fierce cat, Nate the Great is able to use his skills of detection to find the remaining parts of an incomplete message left mysteriously on his doorstep.

Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.

When Nancy is asked to find a professional dancer, clues lead to a huge estate with secrets in the crumbling walls.

A friendly writer with a metal detector, the mysterious inhabitants of a tower house, and the discovery of a locket in the sand are ingredients for the Aldens' latest mystery. One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer living in a mobile home...

Nine mystery stories. In The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, detective Hercule Poirot unravels the psychological conundrums that motivate a killer, while in The Edge a woman must decide whether to follow her heart or her conscience.

Nate and his dog Sludge try to solve a case on Halloween night and find themselves locked in a haunted house.

A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds. When a jewelry store is robbed, fifth-grader Jennifer Jansen knows she has to act fast. Nicknamed "The Camera" because of her photographic memory, Cam takes special care to remember what each person looks like as they leave the store. The police are baffled when witnesses say they have caught the wrong man. Cam and her friend Eric want to...