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Mystery & Suspense Books

Picture Books - Beginning Readers & Younger Fiction  - Younger Series - Older Fiction  - Older Series - Nonfiction & Folktales

Picture Books (Preschool-Kindergarten)

Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard

Where’s My Teddy? by Jez Alborough

Olivia and the Missing Toy by Ian Falconer

Alphabet Mystery by Audrey Wood

Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery by Kevin O’Malley

Mystery by Arthur Geisert

Dot and Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Octavius Bloom and the House of Doom by Erik Brooks

Where’s the Big Bad Wolf by Eileen Christelow

Mystery Mansion: A Look Again Book by Michael Garland

Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing by Satoshi Kitamura

Where Do Balloons Go?: An Uplifting Mystery by Jamie Lee Curtis

 

Beginning Readers & Younger Fiction (Kindergarten - 3rd grade)

Daniel’s Mystery Egg by Alma Flor Ada

Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe by Kin Platt

Bones and the Dinoaur Mystery by David Adler

Detective Dinosaur by James Skofield

Inspector Hopper by Doug Cushman

Bug Muldoon: the Garden of Fear by Paul Shipton

Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Haunted House by Doug Cushman

 

Younger Series

Aunt Eater series by Doug Cushman

Nate the Great series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Cam Jansen series by David Adler

High-Rise Private Eyes series by Cynthia Rylant

Science Solves It! Series

Young Cam Jensen series by David Adler

Hank the Cowdog series by John R. Erickson

Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Geronimo Stilton series by Geronimo Stilton

Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol

 

Older Fiction (4th grade – 6th grade)

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

Assassin by Patricia Finney

Wolves of the Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Deep Secrets by Emily Rodda

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale Mystery by Deborah Howe

Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters of Liars and Leaks

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs

Dead Guys Talk by Barbara M. Joosse

View from the Cherry Tree by Willow Davis Roberts

Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

 

Older Series

History Mysteries series

Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene

Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon

Bessledorf Hotel series (Bernie Magruder) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Brooks

Mysteries in Our National Parks by Gloria Skurzynski

 

Nonfiction & Folktales

Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Boy King by Zahi Hawass

Art Auction Mystery by Anna Nilsen

Who Came First: New Clues to Prehistoric Americans by Patricia Lauber

When Objects Talk: Solving a Crime with Science

The Lost Colony of Roanoke by Jean Fritz

Whodunit Crime Puzzles by Hy Conrad

Chet Gecko’s Detective Handbook and Cookbook by Bruce Hale (Chet Gecko series)

Civil War Sub: The Mystery of the Hunley by Kate Boehm Jerome

Elliott’s Talking Dog and Other Quicksolve Mini-Mysteries by Jim Sukach

April 2006

Revised 6/12/2008

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