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Teens' Catalog | Mysteries

A mystery is a "puzzle story" in which one or more characters try to solve a crime or find the solution to a difficult question.  Real-life mysteries include the Loch Ness Monster and the Bermuda Triangle.

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Abrahams, Peter.  Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery. 
Allison, Jennifer.  Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator. 
Anderson, Janet S.  The Last Treasure.
Avi.  The Traitors' Gate.
Balliett, Blue.  Wright Three.
Colfer, Eoin.  Half-Moon Investigations.
Conly, Jane Leslie.  In the Night, on Lanvale Street. 
Cooney, Caroline B.  Driver's Ed.
Dowd, Siobhan.  The London Eye Mystery.
Feinstein. John.  Cover-Up.
Gilbert, Barbara Snow.  Paper Trail.
Giles, Gail.  Dead Girls Don't Write Letters.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.  Double Identity. 
Hautman, Pete.  Snatched.
Higson, Charles.  Young Bond series.
Hoobler, Dorothy.  Samurai Mysteries series. 
Horowitz, Anthony.  Diamond Brothers Mystery series.
Horowitz, Anthony.  Alex Rider series.
Karbo, Karen.  Minerva Clark Gets a Clue. 
Kehret, Peg.  Abduction!
Konigsburg, E. L.  Silent to the Bone.
Lawrence, Caroline.  Roman Mysteries series.
Mack, Tracy.  The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas.
MacPhail, Catherine.  Missing.
Martin, Ann M.  Missing since Monday.
McAllister, Margaret.  Ghost at the Window.
Muller, Rachel Dunstan.  When the Curtain Rises.
Newman, Robert.  The Case of the Baker Street Irregular: A Sherlock Holmes Story.
Nickerson, Sara.  How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found.
Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Nightmare.
Peacock, Shane.  Eye of the Crow.
Peck, Richard.  Ghosts I Have Been: A Novel.
Pullman, Philip.  The Ruby in the Smoke.
Reiss, Kathryn.  Blackthorn Winter. 
Richards, Justin.  Shadow Beast. 
Richardson, E. E.  The Intruders.
Roberts, Willo Davis.  Rebel.
Scrimger, Richard.  From Charlie's Point of View. 
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.  The Magic Nation Thing. 
Springer, Nancy.  The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery.
Stevenson, James.  The Unprotected Witness.
Tedd, Arnold.  Rat Life.
Townley, Rod.  The Red Thread: A Novel in Three Incarnations.
Van Draanen, Wendelin.  Sammy Keyes series.
Vande Velde, Vivian.  Never Trust a Dead Man.
Weatherly, Lee.  Missing Abby.
Werlin, Nancy.  Black Mirror: A Novel.
Westall, Robert.  A Place to Hide.
Weston, Elise.  The Coastwatcher. 
Winerip, Michael.  Adam Canfield of the Slash.
Yep, Laurence.  Chinatown Mystery series.

Nonfiction

Blackwood, Gary L.  Debatable Deaths.
Blackwood, Gary L.  Secrets of the Unexplained series.
Can Science Solve? series.
Floyd, E. Randall.  Great American Mysteries: Raining Snakes, Fabled Cities of Gold, Strange Disappearances, and Other Baffling Tales.
Friedlander, Mark P.  When Objects Talk: Solving a Crime with Science.
Hawass, Zahi A.  Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Boy King. 
Miller, Lee.  Roanoke: The Mystery of the Lost Colony.
Monroe, Judy.  The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Trial: A Headline Court Case.
Nilsen, Anna.  The Art Auction Mystery.
Platt, Richard.  Forensics.
Simon, Seymour.  Strange Mysteries from around the World.
Stewart, Robert.  Mysteries of History.