One-Hour Mysteries

One-Hour Mysteries
Author: Mary Carr
Publisher: Prufrock Pr
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781593631147

Children become detectives when they solve the mysteries and discover "who done it" in each of the five crimes in this book. Includes deductive reasoning skills, taking notes, organizing data, and analyzing evidence. Teacher's guide, with full solutions begin each chapter.

Private Eye School - More One-Hour Mysteries for the Classroom

Private Eye School - More One-Hour Mysteries for the Classroom
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1593632940

In this companion to her best-selling books, One-Hour Mysteries and More One-Hour Mysteries, Carr presents five exciting new mysteries for student detectives to tackle.

More One-Hour Mysteries

More One-Hour Mysteries
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100049473X

Teachers loved Mary Ann Carr's One-Hour Mysteries and asked for more! In this follow-up to her wildly popular book, Mary Ann Carr offers five motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning. Your students become crime scene investigators, analyzing clues found at a crime scene and applying forensic techniques in their analysis. Each mystery includes a complete set of teacher instructions and blackline masters that may be photocopied for classroom use. This exciting book features the following mysteries: Miss Moneybags' Last Will and Testament, The Doggone Mystery, The Case of Forged Houdini, Who Took the Video Game, and Aunt Sally's Secret. What better way to motivate critical thinking than with a whodunit? Skills include deductive reasoning, inferring, taking notes, organizing data, and analyzing evidence. Get ready for real thinking combined with cloak-and-dagger fun! Grades 4-8

The Private Eye School

The Private Eye School
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000489698

In this companion to her best-selling books , Carr presents five exciting new mysteries for student detectives to tackle. Students will sharpen their sleuthing skills after completing the course designed for great detectives at the Private Eye School, before moving on to tackle mysteries such as “The Vandal Strikes” and “The Great Electric Train Robbery.” Along the way, students will learn to analyze bloodstains and lip prints, while decoding messages and solving challenging puzzles. Each of these mysteries requires students to think outside of the box, organize data, take notes, make inferences, and use deductive reasoning skills. The mysteries include a teacher's guide and attractive reproducible pages for students to use in their investigations. The Private Eye School also provides directions for creating a classroom learning center, in which students write their own mysteries, create logic puzzles, and sketch crime scenes. Grades 4-8

More One-Hour Mysteries

More One-Hour Mysteries
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: One-Hour Mysteries
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781593631093

Children become detectives when they solve the mysteries and discover "who done it" in each of the five crimes in this book. Includes deductive reasoning skills, taking notes, organizing data, and analyzing evidence.

Great Chocolate Caper

Great Chocolate Caper
Author: Mary Carr
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781593630355

Get ready for thought-provoking intrigue. Get ready for fun-filled learning. The mystery is who stole Van Feisty's famous chocolate recipe. There are nine suspects. But which one is guilty? Only by collecting information by doing the logic problems presented in each lesson will students be able to eliminate the incorrect suspects and find the guilty person. In solving the mystery students will: differentiate between valid conclusions and invalid assumptions, use syllogisms to reach valid assumptions, recognize false premises, solve deductive matrix puzzles, decode a secret message. The Great Chocolate Caper is an entertaining instructional unit that will build logical thinking skills and reading skills. Kids will love it! Book jacket.

More Five-Minute Mysteries

More Five-Minute Mysteries
Author: Ken Weber
Publisher: Running Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005-07-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780762424382

Updated covers revitalize the first two titles in our extremely popular Five-Minute Mysteries series by Ken Weber, the master of the succinct whodunit. This attractive new series look is sure to appeal to young adults, introducing them to the lifelong literary pleasures of mystery novels. Each book contains more than 30 baffling cases, each with an ingenious solution guaranteed to challenge and entertain. Best of all, every mystery is short and sweet—easy to read in less time than it takes to microwave popcorn!

The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour
Author: Elly Griffiths
Publisher: Brighton Mysteries
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 035842416X

Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. Soon Emma realizes that Verity's life intersects closely with her own. The team of female PIs circle closer to the killer, with the Brighton police hot on their tail. The clues suggest they're looking for a criminal targeting the old music-hall crew. How long will it be before that trail leads straight back to Max? Print run 3,000.

Eleventh Hour

Eleventh Hour
Author: Graeme Base
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1989-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780810908512

An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief.

The Dangerous Hour

The Dangerous Hour
Author: Marcia Muller
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0446507377

San Francisco’s toughest private eye, Sharon McCone, is back and fighting for her life in Marcia Muller’s acclaimed series. Sharon McCone’s detective agency is growing and the future is looking bright. But when one of her employees—the streetwise and savvy Julia Rafael—is arrested for stealing a credit card from a client, the entire firm’s reputation could be ruined. Although the evidence against her is strong, Julia swears she’s innocent. And as McCone begins to dig deeper, she discovers that someone is out to destroy everything she’s built. Now it’s her turn to prove just how tough she really is, and how far she’ll go to get justice...and some payback of her own.