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1) The silkworm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
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Reunited by a grave robber and a corpse, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is trying to determine the identity of a murder victim, while Officer Jim Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors.
But with each peeled-back layer, it becomes shockingly clear that these two cases are mysteriously connected — and that others are pusuing Highhawk, with lethal intentions.
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In The Man in the Brown Suit Anne Beddingfield's chance witnessing of a man being killed in a subway station leads her to become involved in a world of diamond thieves, murderers, and political intrigue where she and mystery readers meet the incomparable Colonel Race for the first time. A first rate suspenseful mystery thriller. Agatha Christie at her very best!
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 49
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
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The Hardy boys dial a wrong number, get the Pentagon, and suddenly find themselves in a dangerous adventure involving national security.
5) Ricochet
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the keys to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job. At first glance, the case appears open-and-shut: Elise, the judge's trophy wife, interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Where there's smoke there's fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum. The bail bonds office has burned to the ground, and bodies are turning up in the empty construction lot. To make matters worse, Stephanie is working out of a motor home she shares with a dancing bear, and Joe Morelli's old-world grandmother has declared a vendetta against her. And just when Stephanie decides it might be time to choose between...
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A dozen classic cases featuring the world’s greatest detective
This first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories includes many of the consulting detective’s best known cases. “A Scandal in Bohemia” finds Holmes matching wits with—and being outfoxed by—a beautiful American opera singer named Irene Adler. A struggling shop owner stumbles into a lucrative side job, and a criminal conspiracy,
...This first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories includes many of the consulting detective’s best known cases. “A Scandal in Bohemia” finds Holmes matching wits with—and being outfoxed by—a beautiful American opera singer named Irene Adler. A struggling shop owner stumbles into a lucrative side job, and a criminal conspiracy,
11) The twisted claw
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 18
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
The Hardy boys embark on another puzzling mystery when they try to discover who is stealing rare collections of ancient pirate treasure and smuggling them out of the United States.
12) Fear nothing
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English
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While investigating the death of his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly.
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Jigsaw Jones mystery volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) The attorney
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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A child-custody battle leads to murder in this mystery, starring lawyer Paul Madriani of San Diego. It happens when a woman demands a share of her parents' $87-million lottery win, or she will remove her child from their custody.
15) Hour game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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A man accused of burglary seems innocent . . . but in this #1 New York Times bestseller, two ex-Secret Service agents quickly learn that nothing is more dangerous than the truth.
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die...
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Cam, her father, and her friend, Eric, go to the library and soon Cam has a mystery to solve: her father's shopping list has disappeared. Cam decides to use her amazing skills to investigate and puts her photographic memory into action.
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Jigsaw Jones mystery volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Daniel Hawthorne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When a wealthy woman is found murdered after planning her own funeral service, disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, investigate.
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