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A to Z mysteries. Main series

Author:
Roy, Ron, 1940
 
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Book cover for "The absent author".
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Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Third-grader Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber.
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis's canary, Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town.
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Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
While visiting Wallis's castle, Dink and his friends investigate strange noises that lead them to a dangerous secret.
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Dink and his friends unearth the mysterious truth behind the envelopes incorrectly delivered to his house.
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest.
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a fraud.
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
When the guests of the Shangri-La Hotel are scared away by a white-haired female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery.
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from a statue delivered to Uncle Warren's museum in New York City.
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Dink and his friends meet an exchange student, Sammi, who is actually the prince of an island country, hiding from those enemies who have kidnapped his parents and who may be after him as well.
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Dink and his two friends help Lucky find the culprit who stole Lucky's winning lottery ticket.
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help catch the thieves who have stolen the treasure from the museum's mummy exhibit.
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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit a dude ranch in Montana, they find themselves with another mystery to solve, this one involving the theft of money from the ranch's safe and of a large gold nugget that Josh had found.
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Series Volume:
15.
Description:
While visiting Dink's uncle in New York City, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help uncover who is responsible for stealing a very valuable painting.
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo.
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.
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Series Volume:
18.
Description:
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the disappearance of a valuable racehorse that Dink's uncle and his friend, Forest Evans, have just bought and entered in a race at Saratoga.
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
At Green Lawn Elementary, the entire school becomes involved in a mystery when Mr. Bones, the skeleton in the nurse's office, disappears.
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Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the theft of a great deal of money from the belly of a nearly life-size Tyrannosaurus Rex model that their friend, Jud Wheat, is using to raise money for a dinosaur museum.
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Series Volume:
21.
Description:
When the umpire at the baseball game fundraiser is accused of stealing a collection of autographed baseballs, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose try to prove his innocence.
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Series Volume:
22.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate a mysterious man in black who Josh believes is a vampire.
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Series Volume:
23.
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
While visiting their friend Wallis and her adopted daughter on Mount Desert Island, Maine, Josh, Dink, and Ruth Rose investigate why three white wolf cubs were stolen, and by whom.
Book cover for "The x'ed-out x-ray".
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Series Volume:
24.
Description:
Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink attend a concert during which someone steals the star's diamond pendant, and they are soon on the trail of the thief.
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Series Volume:
25.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose help catch the thieves who have stolen gold from Sammi's parents, the king and queen of Costra.
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Series Volume:
26.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Reports of zombies and grave-robbers alarm the people of a Louisiana swampland village, but Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink begin to suspect that the supernatural may not be the cause of the eerie occurrences.