Books like From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Eleven-year-old Claudia Kincaid runs away from her suburban home with her younger brother Jamie to live secretly in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the mystery of a statue that may be by Michelangelo draws them in.
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The Westing Game
Sixteen heirs of the eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing are paired off and handed clues, and whoever solves the puzzle of his death will inherit his fortune.
Harriet the Spy
Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch, who wants to be a writer, spies on her Manhattan neighbours and classmates and writes down everything in her notebook, until her friends find it and read what she wrote about them.
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Jim Qwilleran, a down-on-his-luck reporter assigned to the art beat of the Daily Fluxion, stumbles into murder in the city's art world, with help from Koko, the Siamese cat of the paper's acid-tongued art critic.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Vera Wong, a lonely sixty-year-old widow who runs a fading tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, finds a dead man on her floor one morning and, unimpressed by the police, decides to catch the killer herself by befriending the suspects.
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Four gifted children who answer a newspaper ad for puzzle-solvers are recruited by the eccentric Mr. Benedict and sent undercover into an island school where hidden messages are being broadcast into people's minds.
The Red House Mystery
Antony Gillingham, a gentleman of leisure, arrives at the Red House to visit a friend just as a shot is fired behind a locked office door, and the host's black-sheep brother is found dead inside.
The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.
Truly Devious
Stevie Bell, a true-crime obsessive, wins a place at Ellingham Academy in the Vermont mountains, where in 1936 the founder's wife and daughter were kidnapped, and arrives meaning to solve the case.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
God Save the Mark
Fred Fitch, the easiest mark in New York, falls for every con going, and then inherits a fortune from an uncle he never knew, who was murdered.
The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.