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By David A Adler. 1980
Eric Shelton is planning to enter the Junior News Photography Contest, and his friend Cam is helping him search for…
a subject. When mysterious lights appear floating above the trees, Eric snaps away and Cam puts her photographic memory to use. Is the U.F.O. real or only a prank? Cam and Eric decide to find out. For grades 3-6By David A Adler. 1984
Cam, her parents, and her friend Eric go to the theater on Sunday afternoon to see "Shoe Escape." The first…
half is great, but the second half is...missing! The manager is convinced that Mr. Bender's Bargain theater took it. But Cam's photographic memory tells her that it was really someone else. The police are on the way to arrest Mr. Bender. Will Cam be able to find the real thief in time? For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1981
As Cam, her friend Eric, and Eric's twin sisters Donna and Diane wait in line at Lee's Bookstore for an…
autograph by Poochie, the famous television dog, a suspicious-looking man in line just ahead is holding a dog that looks exactly like Poochie. After a commotion, Cam's photographic memory tells her that the dogs have been switched. Will Cam, Eric, Donna, and Diane be able to rescue the real Poochie? For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1982
On the way to school with their science fair projects, Cam and her friend Eric stop so that Cam can…
take a picture with her homemade box camera of Eric with his big wooden sundial. A man in a red plaid shirt leaves the coin shop where they are standing, and rudely bumps into Cam. When her box camera disappears from the science fair, and two valuable gold coins vanish from the coin shop, Cam and Eric must use their sleuthing skills to solve both crimes. For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1980
While sitting on a bench in the shopping mall, Cam Jansen and her friend Eric see a tall, heavy man…
with a mustache run from Parker's Jewelry Store just as the burglar alarm sounds. When the police capture him, the witnesses inside the store are sure that it is the wrong man. Can Cam's photographic memory help to capture the real thieves? For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1982
At the community hobby show Cam and Eric, her friend, test her photographic memory at the Babe Ruth exhibit. When…
the prized item, a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth, turns up missing, Cam's memory is put to a real-life test as she and Eric become super-sleuths in search of the thief. For grades 3-5By David A Adler. 1984
Cam, her friend Eric, and Eric's twin sisters Donna and Diane are anxious to test their luck and have fun…
at Button Jar Guess, Water Gun Shoot, Beanbag Toss, and the other booths at the fifth-grade carnival. Cam and Eric soon become suspicious when the same boy and girl keep winning the prizes at the Dime Toss booth, while the other children are loosing. Will Cam's photographic memory help them to find the real winners and loser? For grade 3-5By David A Adler. 1981
When Cam and her friend Eric visit the museum with their class, Cam's photographic memory tells her that something is…
wrong with the Coelophysis dinosaur skeleton. Ms. Tyler, the museum guide, and even the museum director tell her that she is wrong. When Cam and Eric see an off-brand milk truck mysteriously making an evening pick-up, they are soon on their way to finding the missing bones and the culprits. For grades 3-5By Bill James. 2002
When the neighborhood supplier of drug dealer Panicking Ralph Ember is murdered by London thugs, the discreet network of local…
drug traders is threatened. With budget cuts leaving zero-tolerance drug policies obsolete, detectives Harpur and Iles work to keep the peace. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex.By Lilian Jackson Braun. 2003
Elderly film star Thelma Thackeray turns the opera house into a film club when she returns to Moose County. She…
graciously allows newspaperman Jim Qwilleran to host a Kit Kat Revue there. His Siamese cat Koko ruins the show but solves a murder. 2003By Edward Gorman. 2001
Black Water Falls, Iowa; 1959. Anti-communism is at its peak after a visit to the state by premier Nikita Khrushchev…
of the USSR. When a high-profile local liberal, attorney Sam McCain's client, is murdered, Sam investigates. Trouble arises when the two main suspects are also killed. Some strong language.By Rhys Bowen. 2002
New York City, 1901. Irish immigrant Molly Murphy, last seen in Murphy's Law (BR 14095), cajoles private investigator Paddy Riley…
to hire her as his assistant. When Paddy is murdered, Molly gets a glimpse of the culprit and attempts to track him down.By Lilian Jackson Braun. 2004
A dead body found on his property slightly dims Moose County columnist Jim "Qwill" Qwilleran's excitement over a new bookstore…
and a neighboring town's upcoming bicentennial. After wild turkeys, rare for the area, suddenly appear Qwill looks to his clairvoyant cat, Koko, for answers. Bestseller.By Michael Melgaard. 2023
By Peter O'Donnell. 1978
A thousand miles from land, alone on a little sloop in the Tasman Sea, Modesty Blaise finds a man on…
a sinking raft--a man with a strange gap in his memory. When he claims to be Luke Fletcher, a renowned artist who disappeared while swimming in the Mediterranean weeks before, it becomes clear that Modesty has stumbled upon a bewildering mystery. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexBy David Adler. 1986
The two sets of twins, Gary and Kevin and Diane and Donna, use their super sleuthing skills at the train…
station to track down missing suitcases and catch the thief, all the while watching little brother Howie, who insists on wandering off. For grades 2-4By Jessica Mann. 1983
Tamara Hoyland, archaeologist and British agent, is sent to the quiet island of Forway off the Cornish coast to investigate…
the recent independence movement. After a near-fatal auto crash and a charming love affair, she uncovers a series of murders linked not by politics but by greedBy Erle Gardner. 1972
The last of the Perry Mason mysteries deals with Mae Farr who is implicated in the death of her boss.…
She was seen with him on his boat the day he was murderedBy Agatha Christie. 1970
The body of a dancing hostess from a seaside resort turns up in the library of a married colonel. Miss…
Marple is her customary uncanny self while helping the local police to find the killerBy Jill McGown. 1983
The nude body of a murdered woman is found in a boathouse in a provincial English town. The man last…
seen with her is missing. It seems to be an open-and-shut case until Detective-Inspector Lloyd, divorced and Welsh, teams up with Sergeant Judy Hill to discover the truth