The Cornfield Maze Mystery

The Cornfield Maze Mystery
Author: Mario Dante
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426928424

Across the dull gray sky of a late October afternoon, two girls, standing on a slight rise near a cornfield, fold their arms across their windbreakers. With cheeks aglow from the frosty air, their eyes dance with excitement. Lila and her best friend, Erin, have just decided that today is the day that they will conquer the cornfield maze on the Dunphy's Family Farm. Lila and Erin gleefully push open the wooden gate and enter the cornfield maze. Erin starts running down the path, laughing and yelling that she will go first. She tells Lila that she must count to twenty before she follows. But when the time comes for them to meet up, Lila can't find Erin-she has disappeared! What could have happened to her? Erin can't find her way out of the cornfield, and the darkening sky looks more and more like rain. She is running now, crashing carelessly through the dead corn stalks, too frantic to recoil from the dry leaves whipping her face as she charges along. Unexpectedly, she sees a shadowy form, just ahead, not moving. It stands motionless, partially obscured by the high stalks. She stops, stunned. Will she ever find her way out of the maze and back to Lila? Inspired by the photo above, featuring the author's granddaughters, this story is part reality and part fantasy, recalling a wonderful afternoon spent romping through a large cornfield maze.

Murder in the Corn Maze

Murder in the Corn Maze
Author: G. A. McKevett
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496716302

The roots of the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency reach back to the 1980s in the little town of McGill, Georgia—where Stella Reid and her seven grandkids enjoy some spooky Halloween fun and stumble into murder . . . Even if she has to stick to a budget, Stella Reid always makes holidays like Halloween memorable for twelve-year-old Savannah and the rest of her grandchildren. After joining trick-or-treating and the annual parade down Main Street, Granny Reid and the kids head to Judge Patterson’s antebellum mansion, where a corn maze awaits. Most of the youngsters are too terrified to make it all the way to the middle. It’s lucky for them, because when Savannah and Granny get there, it proves to be even scarier than they expected—half buried in the mud at the center of the maze lies a human skull. The grisly discovery uncovers a mystery that stretches back decades—and seems to be related to the long-unsolved murder of Granny Reid’s own part-Cherokee mother. After all this time, the culprit may be long gone . . . or still hiding among them. It’ll be up to Granny to dig into this Southern town’s history and a mess of old family secrets . . .

The Clue in the Corn Maze

The Clue in the Corn Maze
Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781417690282

The Alden children find themselves in the middle of a mystery when they discover that a famous corn maze is being vandalized and they try to catch the culprit

What We Found in the Corn Maze and How It Saved a Dragon

What We Found in the Corn Maze and How It Saved a Dragon
Author: Henry Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780316492331

When three kids discover a book of magic spells that can only be cast during a few short minutes a day, they'll need all the time they can get to save a dying magical world, its last dragon, and themselves. An ordinary day turns extraordinary when twelve-year-old Cal witnesses his neighbor Modesty summon a slew of lost coins without lifting a finger. Turns out she has a secret manual of magic spells . . . but they only work sometimes. And they're the most boring spells ever: To Change the Color of a Room, To Repair a Chimney, To Walk With Stilts, To Untangle Yarn. Useless! But when Cal, his friend Drew, and Modesty are suddenly transported to the world the spells come from -- a world that's about to lose its last dragon -- they'll have to find a way to use the oddly specific incantations to save the day, if only they can figure out when magic works. From the inventive mind of Henry Clark comes a hilariously wacky adventure about magic, friendship, a lookout tower come to life, a maze in the shape of a dragon, an actual dragon named Phlogiston, and lots and lots of popcorn.

The Unending Mystery

The Unending Mystery
Author: David W. McCullough
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0307429512

According to legend, anyone who wandered into the labyrinth in Ancient Crete never came out again. Some labyrinths may have offered patterns for an erotic spring dance. Those on the floors of Medieval cathedrals represent mathematical perfection–and walking their paths was a symbolic approach to the divine. From ancient Mediterranean coin patterns to the great French cathedral labyrinths to contemporary cornfield mazes, labyrinths and mazes have appeared all over the world, but never have so many been created as in today’s revival, on farms, and in parks, churches, hospitals, and spas across the country. In his charmingly quirky investigation of an image that has inspired countless beautiful patterns and mysterious practices, David Willis McCullough offers an irresistible way to enjoy their enduring appeal.

The Edie Doyle Mysteries (Books 1-3)

The Edie Doyle Mysteries (Books 1-3)
Author: Shane Sawyer
Publisher: Shane Sawyer
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2024-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0998438561

Miss Marple meets Nancy Drew in this traditional cozy murder mystery series. The Edie Doyle Cozy Murder Mystery Box Set has it all. A prickly heroine with a soft centre A small town setting Quirky neighbours A handsome barkeep Found family And plenty of murder, mystery, and mayhem! This box set includes Edie’s first three adventures: Too Far to Fall (Book 1) Edie Doyle may be new in town, but she’s about to uncover long-held secrets. Secrets someone will do anything to protect. Somewhere in a Dark Wood (Book 2) At an isolated farmhouse, Edie stumbles upon a gravely injured man. Suddenly she’s neck deep in trouble—again. Remember Only This (Book 3) Edie retraces the steps of a dead man. He ended up going right off the edge of a cliff. If she gets too close, will Edie be next? PLUS an excerpt from the upcoming Book 4!

The Girl in the Corn

The Girl in the Corn
Author: Jason Offutt
Publisher: CamCat Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0744304512

Beware of what lurks in the corn. Fairies don’t exist. At least that’s what Thomas Cavanaugh’s parents say. But the events of that one night, when he follows a fairy into the cornfield on his parents’ farm, prove them wrong. What seems like a destructive explosion was, Thomas knows, an encounter with Dauðr, a force that threatens to destroy the fairy’s world and his sanity. Years later, after a troubled childhood and a series of dead-end jobs, he is still haunted by what he saw that night. One day he crosses paths with a beautiful young woman and a troubled young man, soon realizing that he first met them as a kid while under psychiatric care after his encounters in the cornfield. Has fate brought them together? Are they meant to join forces to save the fairy’s world and their own? Or is one of them not who they claim to be?

How to Survive Your Murder

How to Survive Your Murder
Author: Danielle Valentine
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2023-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0593619587

Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying stand-alone horror novel from YA scream queen Danielle Valentine. "This terrifying book reads like a horror movie. No, wait. It has the suspense and shocks and screams of TEN horror movies in one. Great nasty fun!" —R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and Fear Street Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s death, Alice’s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she’s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister’s killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior. Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star. Alice was a nerd who dreamed of becoming a forensic pathologist and would rather stay at home to watch her favorite horror movies than party. Despite their differences, they were bonded by sisterhood and were each other’s best friends. Until Claire was taken away from her. On the first day of the murder trial, as Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween night a year earlier, the same day Claire was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he claims another victim.

Clown in a Cornfield

Clown in a Cornfield
Author: Adam Cesare
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062854615

Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress—that just may cost her life. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now. YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee

Steven Universe: Warp Tour

Steven Universe: Warp Tour
Author: Rebecca Sugar
Publisher: KaBOOM!
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781684150335

Cartoon Network’s breakout hit begins all-new comic adventures here! In all new adventures in the world of Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe, Steven helps a baby songbird find its mother, takes part in a food truck competition, attends a Renaissance Faire, and visits possibly the scariest place of all--the Prom! Writer Melanie Gillman (As the Crow Flies) and artist Katy Farina (The Amazing World of Gumball) team up for the start of new adventures with Steven, the Crystal Gems, and all of Beach City.