Entering Grade 8
MYSTERY
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The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. This classic detective novel has it all. |
One of us is Lying (series)
by Karen M. McManus Five students enter detention, and all have been posted about on the anonymous school chat board by Simon. By the end of detention, Simon is dead, and it wasn’t an accident. Which of the four had enough to lose to commit a murder and will they strike again? |
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia deLuce Novel (series)
by Allan Bradley For Agatha Christie lovers: Flavia de Luce goes outside early one morning to find a stranger dying in their cucumber garden. Normal 11 year old girls would have screamed and fled the scene, but Flavia is intrigued and when her father is arrested for the crime, is soon trying to untangle the knots surrounding the stranger, a rare stamp, her father's old schoolmaster, and the dead man in the garden. |