Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious twelve-year-old detective. Do penguins live near the North Pole? What is the nickname "Al" short for? An underwater car... a whistling ghost ... a Chinese vase ... and a million pesos ...Clues like these can drive you crazy ... unless you're as sharp as Idaville's topnotch puzzle solver--Encyclopedia.

Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.

In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author," Carolyn Keene, were invented by Edward Stratemeyer, who also created the...

Four of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories in a specially adapted version.