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.

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.

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.

One-Hour Mysteries

One-Hour Mysteries
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000494918

One-Hour Mysteries offers five motivating mysteries that your students can solve using clues and logical reasoning. Your students will 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: Mystery at the Mall, The Coaster Caper, The Case of Santa's Blackmail, The Case of the Missing Tiara, and A Hollywood Crime. 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! If you like this book, you'll love its follow-up, More One-Hour Mysteries. 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: 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 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.

The Great Chocolate Caper

The Great Chocolate Caper
Author: Mary Ann Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000489612

Reginald Van Feisty, owner of the world-famous chocolate factory, Dutch Delight Chocolates, is excited about his brand-new recipe for chocolate. But, before he can manufacture even the first chocolate bar, the recipe is stolen! Have your students discover who stole Van Feisty's famous chocolate recipe and they'll not only be great detectives, they'll be masters of logical thinking. There are nine suspects, but which one is guilty? This mystery becomes a vehicle for teaching logical thinking. 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, and decode a secret message. Grades 5-8

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.

Hunting Hour

Hunting Hour
Author: Margaret Mizushima
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2018-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 150986931X

Flashes of memory had been haunting her for months, and sleepless nights stacked up one after another. Only when total exhaustion took over could she fall asleep. Deputy Mattie Cobb’s much needed therapy session is interrupted by a call from the police station – a girl has gone missing from the junior high in Margaret Mizushima’s third K-9 mystery, Hunting Hour. With K-9 partner in crime Robo at her side Mattie rushes to the junior high, finding the distressed parents of Candace Banks waiting for her. Her police dog Robo has one vital skill that humans don’t – a hypersensitive sense of smell – and his highly trained nose leads them right to Candice’s body . . . But as one girl is found another disappears. The trouble rattling Timber Creek has only just begun. Each hour a child is missing lessens the chance of finding them alive, but as each clue leads to a dead end Mattie and Robo’s hunt will be their hardest yet. Critically acclaimed Margaret Mizushima bring us another thrilling small town mystery full of complex emotions and shocking cases which will have you on the edge of your seat.