Children's Crime and Mystery fiction Books

Biff Norris and Chip Edwards, high school friends, find themselves involved in thrilling mysteries and adventures in this exciting series of stories written for boys and girls up to sixteen years of age. Biff fits his nickname, being big and strong,...

When an uncle leaves his old Maine house to the Ward family, Anne and her brother Stephen find they have walked straight into a mystery. The puzzle has its roots in the disappearance of a beautiful girl long in the past. When a valuable portrait is taken...

The wheels hummed on the rails, as 403 roared on and on into the black of night. Jock and Tom McNair were off --and they were sitting next to the pilot in the cab of the engine. For their part in a daring rescue, the boys had been rewarded with a trip...

Hiya, Peeps. I’m Aisha...Aisha the Bold. Just this past spring, my friend Em and I were so tight, working on improving our Hunter Jumper skills together for competition, but that was so yesterday. Now in the sticky heat of July, with my heart...

Follow the adventure of a dwarf rabbit detective as he solves a perplexing theft.  Appropriate for anyone ages 10 and up.A boring weekend at a pet expo takes a dramatic turn for the mysterious when a bird made of rubies is stolen right out from...

Gifted with a rare, ultra sensitive hearing capability caused by a virus at age eight, Tia Fleisher learns about the power of her extraordinary hearing and about the problems associated with being different.Fearing for her safety, she is placed under the...

**MIDDLE GRADER MYSTERIES GROW UP**It was late last fall, and on the cover of the New York Post was a photograph of twelve year old Jeremy Siller standing in a city park with his bloodhound, Digger. They were surrounded by crimson stained paw prints and...

Welcome to the adventures of three young cousins, Joe, Dennis, and Susan Craig, as they explore caves, chase monsters, expose unethical treatment of animals, and visit a 150-year-old antebellum home. Through the three stories, the reader will come to...

Casey Miller and Lexie Wentworth visit Cornelius Williamson, elderly owner of the world-famous Salt Marsh Winery, for a history project for school. During the interviews, Casey and Lexie are introduced to some odd characters who work for him. A...

When Dr. Foster purchases a huge log mansion on a mountain west of Little Rock, AR, the adventure begins. The old house is reputed to be haunted with strange lights being seen up there at night and mysterous sounds not unlike that of moans and of...

It was so foggy that they couldn't pick out any lights on shore. They just had the sinister moaning of the foghorn to guide them. Tom had never been to sea in such conditions and he realised that they were in treacherous waters where the tides ran at...

A businessman is kidnapped. The kidnappers leave no trail. Months pass without the police having a lead. Emily, a precocious 16-year old girl who has a volunteer job at the local police station where her father is a detective, gets involved in the...

Ricky the raccoon has always dreamed of becoming one of Santa's elves. Then one day the unbelievable happens: Santa's sleigh arrives in his neighborhood, and he sees his chance to sneak a ride to the North Pole. But when Ricky takes over...

Charlie is a dog environmental investigator. On one of Charlie's many walks near a creek, he runs across one of his friends feeling sick. Charlie is really concerned that the source of his friend's illness is a potential threat to animals and humans...

In Crabtree, Michigan, winter can be murder. Thirteen-year-old girl detective Kat Dylan and her little brother, Alec, are back!Even after cracking the case of the century, Kat and Alec are still stuck in Crabtree, and suffering through a long, cold...

I am Mudliyar Uday Kumar . This Idea was of my father . I enjoyed to write this story . As I told that my 2nd book is going to come . Wait for it.

A blend of reality and fantasy depicts a true essence of love and war. All the chapters are written to make people realize the value of the environment in one or the other way in a fictitious manner. Today, people are exploiting the environment,...

This story is about four young children who read detective stories and want to become detectives themselves. Sarthak is crazy about Sherlock Holmes. Arpit is a timid child but he never leaves his companions. Vinamra And Raj both have their own merits...

What's the greatest turn that your life can take? You surely cannot turn into a criminal in extracting the keys of your cycle and you definitely cannot get a friend kidnapped because he (supposedly) stole a mysterious Rubic's cube. Then why Reigh?This...

The arrival of a crate of pineapples and an odd pet at the Hollister home in Shoreham is the first of many unusual events in this new and exciting adventure. The sender of the pineapples—Mrs. Villamil—is a girlhood friend of Mrs...

In the little town of Smallberry, USA, an elite team of kid detectives fight for justice. What's the secret of their mystery solving mastery?They have a pet chicken. Her name is Chicken.Follow the adventures of Paul Marlowe (detective-in-charge), Tall...

The Happy Hollister children are off on another exciting mystery! This time it all starts with a letter written in a funny code from Grandmother Hollister, who lives in Canada. The letter said:Dear Children,Gram is writing to you in code. It is braille...

You are invited to follow Abigail Rowan, a young journalism student and amateur sleuth as she systematically dismantles the 300 year old mysterious events in a small sleepy village in Maine. This is the first in a proposed series of Abigail Rowan...

Though the sun blazes down upon the picturesque village of Cockleton, a secret shame lies hidden from its inhabitants.Tom, Jack, Lucy and Elizabeth stumble across something unfamiliar as they search for adventure one hot summer. Little do they know that...

Singing specters, secret passageways, unsolved clues, abandoned mansions, old photo albums and hidden motives are all found in the four stories making up this unique collection, Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained. A young sleuth solves a mystery...

As a child, Nicholas Grant dreamed of being an agent for the FBI International. But after being rejected, he made it his life's work to teach them a lesson and instead became a criminal mastermind. To date, he has pulled off more than 400 successful...

When Don and Jim Mercer and their buddy Terry Mackson set out in their sloop, Lassie, for a visit to Mystery Island, they were in search of adventure and fun. But they quickly found they were getting more than they bargained for -- real danger, a...

9-year-old Tom Owens, a young New Yorker, must save his Uncle Steve's reputation with the help of his friends. Steve has been accused of cutting the wire to the lights aboard the tugboat where he works, causing a collision with another boat, but...

The Stolen Signet is a mystery novel written by Frederick Miller Smith and originally published in 1909. The story revolves around the theft of a signet ring from the protagonist, a wealthy businessman named John Dene. The ring holds great sentimental...

The Shadow Of Moloch Mountain is a novel written by Jane Goodwin Austin and published in 1870. The story revolves around the life of a young girl named Hilda, who is orphaned at a young age and raised by her uncle in a small village at the foot of Moloch...

The Secret of the Black Butte or The Mysterious Mine: A Tale of the Big Horn is a novel written by William Shattuck and published in 1897. The story is set in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming and follows the adventures of a group of young men who set...

The Secret of the Mere: Or Under the Surface is a novel written by James Jackson Wray and published in 1885. The story takes place in the English countryside and follows the lives of two families, the Lintons and the Rokebys. The novel begins with the...

The Sapphire Signet is a mystery novel written by Augusta Huiell Seaman and originally published in 1916. The story follows the adventures of a young girl named Barbara who inherits a valuable sapphire ring from her uncle. However, the ring comes with a...

The Sapphire Bracelet is a novel written by Edward Salisbury Field and first published in 1910. The story revolves around two cousins, Margaret and Dorothy, who are both in love with the same man, Jack. Margaret is engaged to Jack but Dorothy is...

The Rover Boys On A Hunt: Or The Mysterious House In The Woods is a novel written by Arthur M. Winfield and first published in 1920. The book follows the adventures of the Rover brothers, Tom, Dick, and Sam, as they set out on a hunting trip in the woods...

In this classic children's mystery novel, the irrepressible Jerry Todd sets out to solve the mystery of the Whispering Mummy. With the help of his friends, Jerry navigates a complex web of clues and suspects to uncover the truth behind this strange and...

ABOUT THE NOVEL WINDDANCE:“Captivating. Had me hooked right to the end. An ageless, timeless adventure for one and all.” Vicki Hatton, Journalist.  The back cover of the book summarises the story:IT'S 1943 AND WORLD WAR II IS...

Children born into the Regis clan on Friday, July 13, might notice that there's something a little different about them. And ten-year-old twins, Asa and Birdie Regis, are about to find out what it is.Asa and Birdie learn from their Grandpa Carleton that...

Twelve-year-old Kelly still grieves for the loss of her grandparents. Seven months ago, her grandfather passed away, and her grandmother followed six months later. Kelly and her younger brother, Brandan, will both miss spending time at their...

The Capitol Ghost is the story of ice skaters, street kids, coaches, criminals, and the ghosts that walk among them.Four children from the Preliminary Jazzicals Synchronized Skating Team enlist brainy teenager Karina Kowalski to help them hunt a ghost at...

This is the third book in the mystery series of Hanna Rae O'Brien. Hanna Rae is thirteen and lives with her Mother and two brothers Samuel and JC.The story starts off with a swarming. It's the hospital calling about her older brother, JC. It's bad, real...

Casey Miller and Lexie Wentworth's vacation on Cape Cod is rudely interrupted by their discovery of a body in a cranberry bog.Their reputations in Elm Grove have preceded them. Soon, they are visited by an intruder who issues a stern, life-threatening...

When Selwyn is accused of murdering his rival, Farold, he is sealed in the village burial cave with Farold's moldering corpse to await starvation--or worse. Worse comes along quickly in the form of a witch who raises Farold from the dead. Selwyn thought...