Mystery and Detective Stories
for Third and Fourth Graders

MYSTERY ADLER, D.	Magic Money by David Adler. L380 Herman "Houdini" Foster and his cousin Janet investigate an apparent theft at the local mall.
MYSTERY ANDERSON, M.	The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen by M.T. Anderson. L750 Looking forward to a vacation, Katie, Lily, and Jasper attach their flying Gyroscopic Sky Suite to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort, where they mingle with other child heroes found in books, and where they become embroiled in a mystery involving lederhosen-clothed quintuplets and a screaming ventriloquist.
MYSTERY BALLIETT, B.	Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett. L770 When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
MYSTERY BAUER, M.	The Secret of the Painted House by Marion Dane Bauer. When her family moves from Chicago to the country, nine-year-old Emily is drawn to a mysterious playhouse she finds in the woods and soon meets its sad, lonely inhabitant.
MYSTERY BYARS, B.	King of Murder by Betsy Byars. Herculeah meets a murder mystery writer, and has the uneasy feeling that he knows more about murder than he should.
MYSTERY CAPECI, A.	Ghost Train by Anne Capeci. When Billy finds a burlap sack containing a pistol and a cryptic, threatening note, he and his best friends Dannie and Finn avoid rehearsals for the town’s historical pageant while trying to learn who holds a grudge and is plotting against the railroad.
MYSTERY CASSELS, J.	The Mysterious Collection of Dr. David Harleyson by Jean Cassels. When a world famous artist disappears, his nephew pieces together the clues found on the backs of a group of portraits, which feature characters from Mother Goose, Grimm, and Aesop, to decipher where the artist went and where to send the pictures.
MYSTERY CIRRONE, D.	The Missing Silver Dollar by Dorian Cirrone. Fourth-grader and local reporter Lindy investigates the whereabouts of a silver dollar that has supposedly gone missing from her young neighbor’s bank.
MYSTERY DEFELICE, C.	The Ghost of Poplar Point by Cynthia DeFelice. Prompted by the ghost of a young Seneca Indian girl, twelve-year-old Allie and her friend Dub are determined, despite the opposition of an unscrupulous property developer, that the historical pageant celebrating the founding of their town tells the truth about the fate of the Seneca people who lived there during the Revolutionary War.
MYSTERY DIXON, F.	Motorcross Madness by Franklin W. Dixon. The Hardy Boys and their friend Jamal are participating in a motorcycle exhibition and some criminals are trying to ruin it so the Hardy Boys are trying to find the criminals.
MYSTERY ELMORE, P.	Susannah and the Purple Mongoose Mystery by Patricia Elmore. L750 Susannah and her friends investigate a series of fires in their San Francisco neighborhood.
MYSTERY ERICKSON, J.	The Case of the Tricky Trap by John R. Erickson. L700 Someone has been stealing feed out of the feed bin, and it is up to Hank to catch the culprit.
MYSTERY HALE, B.	Murder, My Tweet: from the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye by Bruce Hale. L580 Detective Chet Gecko and his associate, Natalie Attired, take a case tailing what they think is a cheating boyfriend but are instead led to a school mystery that involves blackmail and robots.
MYSTERY HAUTMAN, P.	Skullduggery by Pete Hautman. During a field trip in the local woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.
MYSTERY HAYES, G.	The Secret of Foghorn Island by Geoffrey Hayes. L400 Otto and Uncle Tooth, detectives, investigate a series of shipwrecks, which brings them in touch with the dangerous Sid Rat.
MYSTERY HILDICK, E.	The Case of the Wiggling Wig: A McGurk Mystery by E. W. Hildick. McGurk is confined to an upstairs bedroom when he breaks his leg, but that doesn't stop him and the rest of his detective organization from uncovering a clever robbery scheme being plotted right next door.
MYSTERY HOLM	To Scratch a Thief by Holm & Hamel. An enemy from Mr. Stink’s past is targeting his new suburban family, and the international cat of mystery must discover the identity of his nemesis and defeat him.
MYSTERY JOHNS	Hannah West on Millionaire’s Row: a Mystery by Linda Johns. Pre-teen sleuth Hannah West gets caught up in a mystery involving feng shui and missing antiques while housesitting in a mansion on Seattle’s famed Millionaire’s Row.
MYSTERY JOOSSE, B.	Dead Guys Talk: a Wild Willie Mystery by Barbara M. Joosse. In the dead middle of summer, the Scarface Detectives investigate their creepiest case yet when a mysterious client sends them to Oak Hill Cemetery, where Loonie Loraine is buried.
MYSTERY KEENE, C.	Stop the Clock by Carolyn Keene. Just as I’m gearing up to help plan the Mahoney Library’s seventy-fifth anniversary celebration, the beautiful old clock, the very centerpiece of the library, is stolen.
MYSTERY KIRK, D.	Rex Tabby: Cat Detective by Daniel Kirk. Rex Tabby fights crime along with his partners, Simon Meeze and Frankie Fluff.
MYSTERY LABATT, M.	A Weekend at the Grand Hotel by Mary Labatt. While staying at the Grand Hotel, Sam begins to suspect there are spies there as well.
MYSTERY NAPOLI, D.	Sly the Sleuth and the Pet Mysteries by Donna Jo Napoli. L310 Sly the Sleuth, also known as Sylvia, solves three mysteries for her friends and neighbors, all involving pets, through her detective agency, Sleuth for Hire.
MYSTERY ROY, R.	Detective Camp by Ron Roy. While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings.
MYSTERY ROY, R.	Who Broke Lincoln’s Thumb? by Ron Roy. L630 When they discover that one of the thumbs has been broken off the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, KC and Marshall set out to learn what happened and restore the thumb before a ceremony honoring the sculptor.
MYSTERY SIMMONS, A.	The Raven League: Buffalo Bill Wanted! by Alex Simmons. In late nineteenth-century London, young Archie Wiggins and Raven League—a poor but plucky band of junior detectives—meet Buffalo Bill Cody and try to save him from being framed for an attack on a police constable.
MYSTERY SOBOL, D.	Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case by Donald J. Sobol. 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.
MYSTERY SPRINGER, N.	The Case of the Missing Marquess: an Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer. L1020 Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
MYSTERY STANLEY, G.	The Riddle of the Stolen Sand by George E. Stanley. L430 Everybody loves Mr. Roper. He gives kids free candy or ice cream when their parents shop at his grocery store. So when he’s accused of selling stolen oysters, Mr. Merlin’s Third-Grade Detectives don’t believe it. But can they prove it?
MYSTERY STRICKLAND, B.	John Bellairs’s Lewis Barnavelt in the Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost by Brad Strickland. In the woods near his home in Michigan, thirteen-year-old Lewis Barnavelt stumbles upon an ancient grave and silver whistle that draw him, his best friend Rose Rita Pottinger, his uncle Jonathan, and their friend Mrs. Zimmermann into a battle with an ancient evil.
MYSTERY6 WARNER, G.	The Secret of the Mask by Gertrude Chandler Warner. The Aldens investigate when an old wooden mask they have found is stolen.
MYSTERY WRIGHT, B.	A Ghost in the Family by Betty Ren Wright. L660 While visiting his friend Jeannie’s eccentric Aunt Rosebud in a boarding house that may be haunted, ten-year-old Chad comes across a mystery involving a missing diamond bracelet.
MYSTERY ZAPPA	The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless by Ahmet Zappa. With the help of Dr. Devilstone and a book called the Monstranomicon, Minerva and her brother Max go to the evil Zarmaglorg’s Castle Doominstinkinfart to rescue their father.