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Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway
By Wendelin Van DraanenWhile investigating why someone is trying to force people from their homes to expand a recreation center, Sammy is distracted by the lies she must tell to cover an accident she...
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Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine
By Marjorie Weinman SharmatNate the Great investigates two cases that may be connected, involving a missing valentine and a valentine that came from nowhere.Reserve this title
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The Case of the Sleepy Sloth
By Cynthia RylantHigh Rise Private Eyes Bunny and Jack look into the disappearance of Ramon's favorite lawn chair. Reserve this title
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The Case of the Gobbling Squash
By Elizabeth LevyA young detective and her partner, an amateur magician, solve a case involving missing bunnies, a pink sock ghost, and a remote-control squash that gobbles like a Thanksgiving turkey....
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Nate the Great and the Crunchy Christmas
By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Craig SharmatJoin the great detective as he hunts for Fang's missing Christmas card. Though the case requires shoveling through deep snow and piles of potato pancakes,...
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Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt
By Marjorie Weinman SharmatRosamond's cat, Little Hex, is missing! Can her friend, Nate the Great, help find him on a spooky Halloween night?Reserve this title
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A History Of Detective Stories: Asian Detectives
georgekuwa.jpgThis is the second installment in a series on the history of detective fiction.read more
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One of the sub-genres that defined classic American crime and detective movies was film noir, a style that was pervasive in detective films of the 1940s and 1950s. Film noir arose during the post-World...
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Detective Dinosaur
By James SkofieldDetective Dinosaur and Officer Pterodactyl are challenged to solve three cases when a hat is missing, a shoe squeaks, and a loud clanging comes from a dark alley at night. JBR...
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Inspector Hopper
By Doug CushmanInspector Hopper and his perpetually hungry assistant McBugg solve three mysteries for their insect friends. Ages 6-8. JBR CusReserve this title
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Nate the Great
By Marjorie Weinman SharmatNate the Great solves the mystery of the missing picture; first in a long series. Ages 6-8. JBR ShaReserve this title
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Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth
By David AdlerCam uses her photographic memory to help a classmate find the tooth she lost at school. JBR AdlReserve this title
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The Thieves of Ostia : a Roman Mystery
By Caroline LawrenceIn Rome in the year 79 A.D., a group of children from very different backgrounds work together to discover who beheaded a pet dog -- and why. Learn a little Latin as you read. Enjoy...
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian...
At 5 o'clock in the morning, a curly-headed toddler went missing from his bed in the spacious mansion in the English countryside, never to be seen alive again.read more
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Folly du Jour
The streets of 1920s Paris are teeming with tourists and tramps, fine artists and con artists. Also killers. Knife fights at cafés and corpses floating along the Seine are all part of the daily parade....
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What Is Film Noir?
chinatown.jpgFilm noir is not easily defined. The actual words come from French and mean "black cinema." It was in France during the post-war years that the term was used to describe a certain set of...
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The Mystery Writer
By Jessica Mann"1940.The world is at war and the lives of two English boys are about to be changed forever. Jonathan Hicks, heir to the Cornish estate of Goonzoyle, and Ted Johns, son of the estate's...
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The Brixton Brothers 1: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett
Steve Brixton definitely doesn’t have a brother, and he absolutely is not a detective. He’s just a huge fan of the old Bailey Brothers detective stories, which entirely make up Steve’s top 59 list of...
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Broadchurch
Because I got so caught up in the British Broadchurch mini-series, I binge-watched all eight episodes and stayed up until 2:30 in the morning. The series begins with a walking tour of the pleasant...
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