DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY STORIES
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Summer 2018 407
When
parents leave town without warning, all but when her beloved Aunt Gertie is arrested for
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Forbidden to leave her island, Isabella
dreams of the faraway lands her cartographer father once mapped. When her friend disappears, she volunteers to guide the search. The world beyond the walls is a monster- the dry rivers and smoking stirring from its sleep. Soon, following her map, her heart and an ancient myth, Isabella discovers the true end of her journey: to save the island itself. Age 9 – 12.
272 pages paperback
£6.99 €9.40
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Alice Mistlethwaite has been sent to a boarding school in Scotland but when her father goes missing she persuades some of her new friends to join her to search for him and so begins an epic quest across the wild Scottish Highlands and islands, where friendships will be made and broken, lies will be untangled and the children will face danger and excitement at every turn. Age 9 – 12.
405 320 pages paperback
£6.99 €9.40
Daisy Wells is staying with her friend Hazel
Wong (Detective Society Vice President) in Hong Kong and as usual the girls are never far from a mystery. Tragedy strikes very close to home, and for murder! The girls must work together, confronting dangerous gangs, mysterious suspects and sinister private detectives to solve the murder Age 9 – 12.
368 pages paperback
£6.99 €9.40
408 272 pages paperback
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An old refurbished theatre, the
Beryl, is re-opening. Days before opening night, the ghost light, left on at night to appease the ghosts of actors, is extinguished. Alice digs sleuthing in a network of dark backstage corridors and cobwebby storage rooms. Gradually, she starts to uncover the hundred-year-old secret of the theatre: a stolen diamond. Is the Beryl haunted by a ghost - or a living thief? Age 9 – 12.
leading a smuggling ring, then her obnoxious Uncle Frank and Aunt Stella show up, demanding to be private museum, things begin to look
352 pages paperback
£6.99 €9.40
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Switzerland, 1816. On a
Scarlet and Ivy, and the girls at Rookwood School are fascinated by new as she is mysterious, and she gathers quite a following - in fact, most of the younger girls appear to be under her spell. Eve goes horribly wrong, Ebony then who or what is to blame? Age 9 – 12.
409 368 pages paperback
£6.99 €9.40
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Two thrilling and intriguing
mysteries to keep you guessing: The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Age 9 – 15.
When Archie McBudge inherits the world-famous McBudge Confectionery Company from Great-Uncle Archibald, he of treats but when he reads the mysterious letter his great-uncle company from ruin. Age 7 – 9.
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208 pages paperback
£5.99 €8.10
her employer on a visit to the grand and mysterious Midwinter Manor. The house is full of guests, and with each one eccentric and intriguing in their own way, few days. But things turn from interesting to downright deadly when Nancy discovers a dead body in the library. Age 9 – 12.
224 pages paperback
£6.99 €9.40
200/286 pages
two books in a slipcase hardback
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stormy summer night, Lord Byron and his guests are gathered ghost stories. Felix, wait to hear their creepy tales. Then comes an unexpected knock at the on the doorstep with an even more scary story. Age 9 – 12.
308 pages paperback
£6.99 €9.40
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In a fading town, far
from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. In his unique and witty style, he tells what happens when he is hired to investigate a theft but begins badly by asking all the wrong questions. Age 9 – 12.
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