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While helping out part time in a pet shop, the Alden children discover an employee who is smuggling and selling exotic animals.

While working at a summer stock theater, eleven-year-old Zack and his stepmother encounter the ghost of one of Connecticut's most notorious criminals.

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Thirteen-year-old James Bond, an Eton student and member of the Danger Society, travels to his cousin's home on the Italian island of Sardinia where he becomes involved in trying to unravel the mystery behind an ancient Roman society and an art heist that have left a young girl's life hanging in the balance.

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, who knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in the small town of Strattenburg, finds himself involved in a murder trial because of knowledge he might have about a cold-blooded killer.

Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.

Eighteen-year-old Michael, who has not spoken since a tragic occurrence ten years before, realizes he has a talent for picking locks, but his skills lead him into a life of crime that he will have to escape in order to confront the secret to his silence and find love.

Seventeen-year-old Chris, living and working in Oxford, falls in love with an elusive girl and while searching for her discovers the devastating consequences of placing his trust in the wrong person.

A collection of ten novellas by a variety of crime and suspense authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Clark Howard, Jeremiah Healy, and others.

The story of Billy Bathgate, a boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become apprentice and protege to one of the great murdering gangsters.

A master criminal plots and carries out the robbery of gold bullion being sent by train from London to Paris in supposedly invulnerable safes.

After a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower," the Hardy boys make an astonishing discovery.

Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves.

Tom Ripley, sent to Italy to coax American playboy Dickie Greenleaf to return home, decides instead that he wants to be exactly like Greenleaf and will stop at nothing to reach his goal.

Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark, pursues a mark, who's behind in payments, to Las Vegas and then to Hollywood where Harry Zimm has gambled away the $200,000 earmarked for his next production.