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Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 2
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A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman sprawled on the basement floor, a chisel thrust through her heart. As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the Georgian terrace's unassuming facade. Professionally, he...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 60
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A Japanese business tycoon mysteriously disappears and, soon after, a rare samurai sword is stolen from an art gallery. Suspecting a connection, the Hardy boys try to solve the mystery.
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 11
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Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to catch a thief during a department store sale.
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Nancy Drew files volume case 10
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Nancy investigates a thirty-year-old mystery involving the bizarre death of Mayor John Harrington.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 57
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Nancy Drew and friends Bess and George track a group of swindlers and kidnappers from New York to Mexico City to Los Angeles where they finally solve the mystery of the Triple Hoax.
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Encyclopedia Brown books volume 21
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America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
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Nancy Drew files volume case 7
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Nancy is abducted by terrorists when she poses as a government courier to deliver a document vital to top-secret negotiations with a country on the brink of revolution.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 64
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The art collector who suspects the Hardy boys of stealing one of his valuable paintings offers them a chance to prove their innocence by hiring them to find the painting and the real culprits.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 61
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Valuable antique weathervanes are being stolen in the Pennsylvania Dutch country. A Navy employee removes a top secret document from the Pentagon. The Hardy brothers try to solve these two seemingly unrelated mysteries.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 29
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Difficult assignments are nothing new to the Hardy boys and this one that takes them to the Deep South is particularly challenging. Their mission: to vindicate a long-dead Confederate general, disgraced during the Civil War because he was accused of stealing hidden gold belonging to a bank. Skillfully avoiding booby traps and flying bullets, the boys persevere in their perilous quest. The arduous search is full of surprises that will thrill all fans...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 32
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The Hardy boys find the missing deed to an Indians' land, prevent a phony salesman from carrying through a reckless scheme, and help their father solve a top-secret case.
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 5
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While using her photographic memory to find her missing science fair project, Cam accidentally locates two valuable gold coins.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 46
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Nancy Drew and her friends go on a ghost hunting expedition and become involved with a gang of thieves who concentrate their activities on collectors of valuable shells.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 45
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Nancy Drew's latest involvement in a mystery begins in her home town and concerns a synthetic sapphire with a spider embedded in it, and the strange disappearance of Ned Nickerson.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 55
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A young detective's attempts to uncover a group of poachers on Crocodile Island in Florida involve her with kidnapping, reptiles, enemy boats, and a sinister racket.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 35
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In solving the mystery of two medallions missing from an inherited curio collection, the Hardys wind up in a desolate area of Guatemala at the mercy of dangerous thugs.
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Cam Jansen adventure volume 10
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Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to solve a monkey smuggling mystery at the city zoo.