Humourous Mysteries

No sneaking out. No going into Boston alone. Moxie Fleece knows the rules and follows them - that is, until the day she opens her front door to a mysterious stranger. Suddenly, Moxie drops smack into Boston’s biggest unsolved mystery: the Gardner Museum art heist. Moxie has two weeks to find the art, otherwise she - and the people she loves - will be in big-time danger. Her tools? Her best friend, Ollie, a geocaching addict who loves to find stuff; her Alzheimer’s suffering grandfather, Grumps, who knows lots more than he lets on; and a geometry proof that she sets up to sort out the clues.

The big day is quickly approaching for Emma Hart. The best laid plans go awry, however, when a potion causes her to lose important memories. Without Emma's crucial memories, the coven worries that their hard work to undo the curse on Spellbound will remain at a standstill. It's all wands on deck as Emma's friends rally to get to the bottom of the mystery potion. Will Emma recover her memories in time to walk down the aisle and save Spellbound? A not-to-miss book for fans of the series!

It's Christmas, but leave it to Sammy Keyes to find trouble even in the midst of the holiday parade. Trying to help a friend, she reluctantly volunteers on the Canine Calendar float, only to have the famous cover dog dog-napped on her watch! The animal's owner orders Sammy to find the dog before the $50,000 ransom being demanded comes due.

What looks more impressive on a resume? Nosy amateur sleuth or struggling no-name actress? Neither one pays the bills, and Becky Robinson has a lot of bills. So, when she's invited to the reading of her rich uncle Al's will, she daydreams about her inheritance. The problem, Becky doesn't have an uncle Al. And she never met the deceased. The mysterious stranger leaves her a ceramic flamingo with a hidden message. Turns out her fake uncle was murdered, and she was hired from the grave to find whodunit.

Falls du es noch nicht wusstest: Die Knallharten Tauben sind die besten Ermittler der Stadt. Felsi und seine Tauben-Gang jagen das Böse und lösen auch die schwierigsten Fälle. Warum sind alle Brotkrumen verschwunden? Wer entführt die Fledermäuse? Und was, bitteschön, gibt es heute zum Abendessen? Dabei helfen ihnen ihre supergurrrten Super- äh, Taubenkräfte! Falls du dich also jemals gefragt hast, warum Tauben so krass drauf sind: Hier kommt die Antwort.

Amadeo Bola debe investigar el robo de un sello, pequeño de tamaño, pero aparentemente de gran valor, al que han llamado "ocre mate sin dentar de dos peniques con error en base y sesgo verde". Como os podréis imaginar, un sello de tal nombre esconde detrás de él un gran valor. El propietario es, por supuesto, un millonario ricachón. Menos mal que Amadeo se mueve con soltura en estos ambientes tan refinados.

Joe Sherlock, the world's most unlikely kid detective, stumbles back into action to solve Baskerville's biggest, most epic crime spree ever. With his brainy kid sister Hailey at his side, Sherlock encounters a mystery so massive, it's left his city in a panic and Baskerville's police department once again knocking on his door at 221 Baker Street. As the town's giant statues disappear mysteriously one by one, Sherlock needs to act fast before there are no statues left to swipe. But who's taking them? And why? Is this case too big for one fourth grader to wrap his arms around?

For sixth-grader Nina Tanleven, trying out for a part in a play is pretty scary. But nothing can compare to seeing a ghost, a woman in white, sitting in the audience! Nina senses that she has nothing to fear from this apparition, but she is intrigued. Nina learns that 50 years ago, a beautiful actress was murdered - on this very stage! According to legend, she has haunted the theater ever since.

Annie Darling's yuletide preparations have been put on hold because her mother-in-law, Laurel, has taken to chatting up ghosts in the local graveyard. Across Broward's Rock, onetime movie star Marguerite Dumaney Ladson has called together all of her kin and their exes for a gala celebration...

Podgy Bottom is in trouble. All over town cars are being shrunk to the size of a matchbox in the blink of an eye; a giant purple bunny rabbit is running riot and a strange-looking broomstick is causing chaos and calamity.... Sounds like a case for Wings & Co, the famous fairy detective agency! Can Emily, Budget, and Fidget put a stop to this magical mischief before it's too late?

Der Hilferuf der berühmten Professorin Marry Curry kommt von weit her, nämlich aus Afrika. Und weil Frau Perle schon immer davon geträumt hat, auf Safari zu gehen, machen sich alle zusammen auf die Reise. Sogar Schlappi kommt mit! Ein Nilpferd bringt sie zur Ranch von Marry Curry, doch da ist sie nicht anzutreffen. Jetzt ist der Spürsinn von Nickel und Horn gefragt. Sie müssen nicht nur die Professorin finden, sondern auch verhindern, dass ihre geheime Formel in die Hände der Hyänen gerät.

"Den är borta!" skriker Vingelskolans rektor Per Fekt upprört. Skolvaktmästare Tore E. Händig inser förvånat att rektorns stora, buskiga mustasch är försvunnen. Tillsammans med skolbarnen Klara och Otto bestämmer han sig för att ta reda på vem som ligger bakom den fräcka mustaschstölden. Den försvunna mustaschen, skriven av Christina Olséni och Micke Hansen, är en rolig deckare i skolmiljö. CHRISTINA OLSÉNI & MICKE HANSEN, som har gjort sig kända för sina humoristiska deckare för vuxna, skriver nu även för den yngre publiken.

One afternoon, while Ben and Jenny play in the garden, Ben notices a pair of extremely hairy legs belonging to a huge creature hiding in their hedge. Just as they investigate, they are called in for tea. From that moment on, the pair attempt to determine what the creature is.

It's the school holidays in Snoops Bay, and Riz, Olly, Drew and Anton are looking for their next adventure. When they decide to visit the town's most unremarkable tourist spot, Bony Beach, they're shocked to discover a long-lost shipwreck that sunk to the bottom of the sea with treasure aboard. But their exploration of the ruin is quickly thwarted when they come face to face with the phantom figure of the ship's captain, Horatio Huxley, and accidentally put a curse on Snoops Bay. Undeterred, our heroes vow to get to the bottom of the mystery once and for all.

Joe Sherlock is at it again on his wackiest, weirdest case yet! Why has an ancient ghost returned to haunt a snooty golf course? Who secretly emptied out the Sherlock family’s savings account? Can a trembling kid detective solve Baskerville’s oldest and most terrifying mystery before he gets the wits scared out of him?

Special Agent Felix Whiter always gets his man...or tortoise. Or does he? Sometimes the tortoise gives him the slip, and sometimes the real villain is.... Oh, but that would be telling. A very silly spy thriller for kids, with plenty of giggles for adults too. For Cats' Eyes Only is packed with excitement, danger, terrible puns, and fart humor. Educational allergy advice. This is intended to be a purely fun story.

Mudshark is cool. He’s the go-to guy with the answers, and the mudshark Detective Agency is always on the case. At least, it is until the Psychic Parrot takes up residence in the school library. The word in school is that the parrot can out- think Mudshark. And right now, the school needs someone who’s good at solving problems. There’s an escaped gerbil running the halls’ a near-nuclear emergency in the faculty restroom, and an unexplained phenomenon involving disappearing erasers. Once Mudshark solves the mystery of the erasers, he plans to investigate the Psychic Parrot….

Ten-year-old Delbert's world is grey and glum since his grandfather died. Everything is a dull routine, and all Delbert wants to do is stay in his room. What's more, he has to cope with an annoying next-door neighbor, Evie, who has committed her life to being in love with him. But Delbert's whole life is about to change when he is forced into a supersecret spy mission to find a missing cat called Pandora. What seems like a straightforward job suddenly escalates into the stuff of real spy stories.

What’s better than one Ellie and Ace adventure? Four – all together in one ready-made collection! Girl detective Ellie and her dog pal Ace will captivate and delight readers with their adventures in this four-story set. Ellie and Ace want to be world-famous detectives. To do that, they need lots of practice. Fortunately, their small town of Huckleberry Springs provides lots of cases for them to solve.

Someone is pirating Johnny Cash albums and selling them for profit. It is up to Ramona Police Department detectives Mike Rock and Steve Kelman to find the perpetrators and arrest them. It is up to the by-the-book District Attorney Milt Stone to see they get the death penalty.