Acceleration by Graham McNamee
Wendy Lamb Books, 2003
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
YA MYSTERY MCN
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Buccaneer Books, Inc., c1939
Ten houseguests, trapped on an isolated island, are the prey of a diabolical killer. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale?
MYSTERY CHRI
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Harcourt, c2000
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
YA FICTION PLU
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lillian Jackson Braun
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997
A former reporter solves a crime with the aid of his cat when an assignment to cover the art beat leads to murder.
MYSTERY BRA
Close to a Killer by Marsha Qualey
Delacorte Press, c1999
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.
YA MYSTERY QUA
Deathwatch by Robb White
Laurel-Leaf Books, 1973
A hunting trip turns into a test for survival as Ben guides a ruthless businessman into the desert.
PB YA FICTION WHI
The Gadget by Paul Zindel
HarperCollins Publishers, c2001
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
YT FICTION ZIN
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Signet, 1986
The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale – the legend of the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervilles ancestral home.
PB MYSTERY DOY
I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
Little, 1973
Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery person seeking revenge.
PB YT FICTION DUN
In Darkness, Death by Dorothy Hoobler
Sleuth Puffin, 2005
In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.
PB YT FICTION HOO
The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin
Delacorte Press, c1998
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.
YA FICTION WER
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Random House, c1985
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
PB YA MYSTERY PUL
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Vintage, 1957
Sam Spade's partner is murdered while working on a case, and it is Spade's responsibility to find the killer. In his search, Spade runs mortal risks as he comes closer to the answer.
MYSTERY HAM
Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde
Harcourt Brace Company, c1999
Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.
YT FICTION VAN
The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cromier
Delacorte Press, c2001
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
YA FICTION CRO
Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
Warner Books, c1997
According to the Egyptians, dreaming of a large cat means good luck; that is just what plucky archaeologist Amelia Peabody needs. When the excavation of an unknown tomb reveals a recent murder, she must find an assassin who'd like to end her discoveries for good.
MYSTERY PET
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Bantam Books, c1982
Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry, including sixteen of his finest tales.
PB CLASSIC POE
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
Harper & Row, c1988
When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
MYSTERY HIL
The Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes
David R. Godine, c1991
Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it.
YT MYSTERY HAY
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
E.P. Dutton, c1978
One fateful day, sixteen people gather for the reading of the will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. To their surprise, the will turns out to be a contest, challenging the heirs to find out who among them is Westing's murderer.
YT MYSTERY RAS
