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In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.

The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritancesubjects: Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Detective Stories, Apartment Houses, Newbery Medal Winner 1979.

V.I. Warshawski, private investigator, uncovers a network of corruption when she goes back to her old neighborhood in Chicago.

Sixteen-year-old Chicago preparatory school student Sara Jane Rispoli must unravel a web of complex mysteries after her family goes missing and she is pursued by unknown enemies.

While visiting the National Figure Skating Championships in Chicago, a top woman skater takes a fall.

Mr. Pin, the rock hopper penguin detective in Chicago, investigates two cases involving gargoyles and baseball.

McCormack Malloy, a fiftyish ex-cop and partner at Gage & Griswell, is sent to find a missing lawyer and the 5.

Supernatural sleuth Harry Dresden, the only professional wizard in the Chicago area telephone book, finds himself with a major problem on his hands when something or someone decides to stir up the usually mild-mannnered ghosts that inhabit the spirit world.

During a visit to the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley field, cousins Mike and Kate investigate why someone has been tampering with the famous ivy vines growing on the outfield walls.

Christina, Grant, Lee, and Lana track down a missing dinosaur skeleton at Chicago's historic Field Museum.

Mr. Pin, the rock hopper penguin detective in Chicago, investigates two cases involving a flood and a sinister fishnapping.

V.I. Warshawski agrees to take over the coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, and through one of her players, V.

Nancy's friend is set to run in a Chicago marathon but the top runner in the race has received numerous death threats.

In an alternate reality where Prohibition never ended and now includes tobacco, drugs, and firearms, and where gambling is legal, Joe Tarpley steps into the empty shoes of Eliot Ness to lead the new Untouchables, cleaning up the casino-filled and crime-ridden streets of Chicago.

Commander Larry Cole, a tough Chicago cop, thinks he has seen it all, until the drug bust outside the National Science and Space Museum goes wrong, and he learns that 188 people have disappeared from that museum over the years.