A classic 1940's style mystery... "Secretary Murders Widowed Mistress in Adelaide Love Nest!" Vivian Sherlock glanced from the screaming headline on her daily newspaper to the pale young man sitting on the other side of her desk. "Nigel is innocent!" insisted the young man.

If you can't beat them, join them. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover is so annoyed by the infighting at tiny Bradley, North Carolina's town council meetings that she decides on a radical course of action: she'll run for the open seat on the council. After all, she taught most of the elected officials-she should be able to enact some order. But order apparently isn't in the works. This becomes clear when a fellow candidate is found . . . murdered. Myrtle and her senior sidekick Miles must uncover the killer before someone else becomes a lame duck.

Identical twins, Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, have just graduated from Sweet Valley High and are college-bound. Elizabeth, all books and learning, dreams of becoming an attorney, while Jessica's only concern is becoming president of the best sorority on campus and dating the hottest guys. Elizabeth's dreams are put on hold when she meets the new student on campus who has all the ladies going crazy: Prince Lawrence "Larry" Benfield from London. As Jessica plots to get to know the Prince, the Prince only has eyes for Elizabeth. When Prince Larry proposes to Elizabeth, will it ruin the sisters' bond forever? And Lila Fowler and Bruce Patman arrive at Sweet Valley University, shocking everyone with their announcement. Disclaimer: Francine Pascal owns the characters. I am using the characters in a university update based on her Sweet Valley High/Middle School books.

What would The Secret Seven do without Scamper the spaniel? First he discovered an unwanted visitor then he protected The Secret Seven as they spy on a thief late at night in Bramley woods.

An #OpenNovellaContest (#ONC) Ambassador Pick! Eleanor and Lydia, book 1 Armed with knitting needles and a fantastic playlist, Eleanor and Lydia set off to solve The Mystery of Novak Manor. Eleanor Albright is a spritely ninety-year-old ex-detective with more than a few skeletons in her closet and a grim determination to keep them there by hiding from the world. Her great-granddaughter Lydia is twenty-two- years old and sorely misunderstood by the world. After all, just because a girl dresses in all black and listens to My Chemical Romance doesn't mean she lacks vision or hope. Well... maybe hope. When Lord Novak calls Eleanor from his castle in a tiny, beautiful Eastern European nation with a desperate plea for help, she agrees, with mixed emotions, to come out of retirement and she talks Lydia into serving as her assistant. Now the two women must find the truth about the fearsome ghost that's haunting Novak Manor before the "ghost" finds the legendary secret treasure with the power to bring the monarchy to its knees.

#1 in MYSTERY and HAUNTED. 1930s-style Dana Girls fanfiction - an eerie twin-towered castle of white stone on an ice-bound island on a frozen winter lake, a nearby English manor house haunted by a flute playing ghost who roams the halls at night accompanied by a wolf, and a mysterious kidnapped girl from the past all come together in one of the most thrilling Dana Girls cases ever! THE DANA GIRLS were a 1900s sister-series to NANCY DREW and THE HARDY BOYS from the same publishers and writers from the 1930s to the 1970s. This is a FANFICTION MYSTERY, written in the same style as the original Danas from the 1930s, and set in that era. There were 30 Dana Girls mystery stories written and published by the creators of the original Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books in the 1930s - 1970s. This book is representative of the early volumes in the series. The Dana Girls have also appeared in some of the recent Nancy Drew graphic novels.