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Books in the Mystery genre:

Stranger on Big Hickory (2005)

Skip Rollins decides to join 4-H and pursue his hobby of wildlife photography.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Don Lambo

Topsail Island Treasure (2005)

Don Douglas lives with his parents on Topsail Island, a state park where his father is superintendent. Visitors like to look for Captain Kidd’s treasure, but Don knows he has already found the Topsail Island treasure.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Marbury Brown

The Black Island (2006)

Wrongly accused of theft, Tintin and Snowy set out on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters. This is a reprint of the original black and white edition.

Author(s): Hergé
Illustrator(s): Hergé

The Blue Lotus (2006)

Tintin battles drug smuggler and the Japanese occupiers of China in this adventure. This is a reprint of the original black and white version with the 1983 English translation.... View More

Author(s): Hergé
Illustrator(s): Hergé

The Buckboard Stranger (2006)

When a smooth-talking stranger with a fast rig comes to town, Chuck and Barney are in for a summer of mystery and excitement.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Paul Calle

Cigars of the Pharaoh (2006)

While traveling in Egypt Tintin and Snowy stumble on a tomb filled with dead Egyptologists and cigars. This is a reprint of the original 1934 black and white version.

Author(s): Hergé
Illustrator(s): Hergé

King of the Hills (2006)

Breck Townsend went to New Hampshire to photograph the biggest buck and found himself tangling with a gang of poachers.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Lee Townsend

The Little Nugget (2006)

The Little Nugget is Ogden Ford, object of kidnappers employed by his mother, who is divorced from his father, who has also employed kidnappers to keep him away from his mother’s bad influence and then there is White, the school butler who is a... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Who Rides in the Dark? (2006)

Daniel Drew is heading west to seek his fortune when he gets caught up in the search for a gang of highway men.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): James MacDonald

The Birthday Book (2008)

A treasury of stories and poems by many different authors and illustrators.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley
Various

The Book of Ghosts (2009)

A collection of classic ghost stories from Irving and Alcott to Poe and Wilde. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

The Pursued (2011)

A mother avenges her daughter’s murder.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Complete Father Brown Stories (2012)

This omnibus collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest considered one of the high spots of detective fiction includes the three uncollected stories as well as the contents of all five of the original books.

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Tintin and Alph-Art (2013)

Tintin and Haddock get involved in an art forgery scheme in this last of the Tintin books, which was left unfinished at the author’s death. This completion by a fan was issued in a very limited edition. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Hergé
Yves Rodier
Illustrator(s): Hergé
Yves Rodier

The Luck Stone (2014)

Originally written in 1908 and published in a British magazine, Chums, this is a school story with plenty of blood-and-thunder.

Living Dangerously: A Kalle Blomkvist Mystery (2017)

Evalotta, the baker's daughter witnesses something terrible and suddenly Kalle Blomkvist (aka Bill Bergson) is called on to protect her from a ruthless murderer. 

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

Master Detective: A Kalle Blomkvist Mystery (2017)

Kalle Blomkvist (aka Bill Bergson) interrupts his musings on the criminal mind to prosecute the war of the roses, until a gang of jewel theives makes the mistake of invading his town and he swings into action to defend the rule of law.

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): None

The White Rose Rescue: A Kalle Blomkvist Mystery (2018)

When the knights of the White Rose witness a kidnapping they spring into action.

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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