The Alden children draw upon their resourcefulness to save the neighborhood firehouse from being torn down, while they also face a series of mysterious incidents connected with it.

Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled...

This is a large print edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

Ten brief cases allow the reader to match wits with ten-year-old crime-buster, Encyclopedia Brown, as he locates stolen jewels, retrieves a stuffed tiger, and more. Solutions are included at the back of the book.

A wounded homing pigeon carrying a mysterious message lands in Nancy's yard and she finds herself investigating the workings of a sanatorium.

The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.

Nancy receives a letter meant for a British heiress who has the same name and, in her attempts to contact the other young woman, faces danger from a man who operates a Lonely Hearts Club mail fraud.

Cam Jansen battles a famous children's mystery writer to see who can solve the case of the stolen car.

The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.

The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.