Frank Carlson Library

Nancy Drew tries to find a clue to the strange tapping sounds in the house of a retired actress.

Nancy Drew tackles a mystery professional detectives failed to solve--finding a valuable centuries-old message in a hollow oak tree in Illinois.

The victim, an affluent artist named Isabelle, had been shot with a .38; her husband, David was tried and acquitted of the murder. Now her ex-husband is suing for Isabelles estate.

A wealthy couple is murdered in their kitchen. Then, the only witness, their six-year-old daughter goes missing. The child's birth mother is charged with the crime. Small town lawyer, Cass Leary takes the case that could rip her family apart. Her sister Vangie stands accused in the double homicide of an affluent, Ann Arbor couple. All the physical evidence points to Vangie's guilt and Cass knows she's been keeping secrets. But, is she truly capable...

When Scooby-Doo and his friends visit Phantom Gulch, a Wild West theme park, they discover it is closing because the staff and customers are being chased out of town by a spooky cowboy riding a haunted buffalo.

"Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her "curvy" girls shouldn't waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt's beloved charity. What Maeve doesn't know is just how brutal some of the other runners...

"The final nail-biting installment in Ragnar Jonasson's critically-acclaimed Hidden Iceland series, The Mist, from the newest superstar on the Icelandic crime fiction scene. 1987. An isolated farm house in the east of Iceland. The snowstorm should have shut everybody out. But it didn't. The couple should never have let him in. But they did. An unexpected guest, a liar, a killer. Not all will survive the night. And Detective Hulda will be haunted forever"--...

"In his first chronicled adventure,the Nameless Detective hires on to handle the ransom payoff in a kidnapping case. Financier Louis Martinetti doesn't trust the police to deal with the man who snatched his 9-year-old son from his military prep school, nor is it clear that he trusts the members of his own household. On the apointed evening, Nameless takes a briefcase that contains $300,000 in cash to a secluded loaction chosen by the kidnapper. Then...

A mysterious killer who calls himself The Artist is assassinating wealthy lawyers in San Francisco. When photojournalist and war veteran Jake Wolfe accidentally takes his picture during a murder, The Artist adds Jake to his kill list and he becomes a target in a deadly game of cat and mouse that only one of them can survive. How far would you go to protect your loved ones from a killer? Jake wants to leave his top secret, violent past life behind...

January 15th 1947, local police had arrived to the nightmarish scene, hardly believing it was possible as they stared down at the porcelain lifeless body of Elizabeth Short. Her limp arms raised above her head; her torso precisely sliced through and her lower half of her body and legs erotically laid out some 30 cm away. This young woman had suffered at the hands of some evil that police and investigators had never come across; some deranged individual...