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How about a seat at a mystery dinner on a riverboat? Yes, please! I jumped at the invitation to go along with Bess, George, and George's mom, who was hired to cater the dinner. It's all fun until there's an actual theft, and there's nothing like a good crime to stop a party. Since I've got the magnifying glass, it's up to me to catch "sticky fingers" before this dinner's sunk.

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

The solutions to 10 mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the 10-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.

An unexpected midnight quest...
A holdup at the First City Bank...
A stolen tennis racket...
Gerbils who paint in pairs...
and fifty mosquitoes netted at the Oddball Olympics!
These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him—the answers to all the mysteries are found in the back!

A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.

Nate the Great investigates the mysterious disappearance of the purple plastic octopus that his baseball team uses for second base.

A fiery glowing eye in a museum, the abduction of Ned, the code name Cyclops, and a pilotless helicopter draw Nancy and her friends into a dangerous investigation.

Nancy Drew tackles a mystery professional detectives failed to solve--finding a valuable centuries-old message in a hollow oak tree in Illinois.

Detectives-in-training Milo and Jazz must put their skills to the test to solve the mystery of how the water in the town swimming pool turned purple.

Blue bells will be singing horses! This strange message, attached to the leg of a wounded homing pigeon, involves Nancy Drew in a dangerous mission. Somewhere an elderly woman is being held prisoner in a mansion, and  Nancy is determined to find and free her. Meanwhile, the young detective’s close friend, Helen, begs her to solve a second mystery. Helen’s grandparents, the Cornings, are frightened by a sinister wheel of blue fire...