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811.008 GHO Ghost poems. New York : Holiday House, c1979. Presents seventeen poems about ghosts.

FIC AVI Avi, 1937-. Wolf rider : a tale of terror. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1986. After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

FIC BRA Braun, Lilian Jackson. The cat who went up the creek. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002. James Qwilleran is enjoying a               vacation at the Nutcracker Inn, but the tranquillity is soon interrupted when one of the other guests is found dead, and feline detectives Koko and Yum Yum do their best to help Qwill solve the case.

FIC CAB Cabot, Meg. Twilight. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2005. Sixteen-year-old Carmel, California teenager Suze Simon is a               typical high school student except for the fact that she is                a "shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love with a ghost from the nineteenth century.

FIC CHR Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Hallowe'en party. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley Books, 1991. One of the very respectable guests at the festive Hallowe'en party must have committed murder--someone who had a nasty shock from Joyce's               revelation.

FIC CHR Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Elephants can remember : a Hercule Poirot novel. Berkley ed. New York : Berkley Books, 1984, c1972. Hercule Poirot investigates the double suicide deaths of Lord and Lady Ravenscroft that occurred twelve years ago. There are hints that it was not suicide after all.

FIC DOY Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Berkley Prime Crime ed. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 1994. A scandal in Bohemia -- The red-headed league -- A case of identity -- The boscombe valley mystery -- The five orange pips -- The man with the twisted lip -- The adventure of the blue carbuncle -- The adventure of the speckled band -- The adventure of the engineer's thumb -- The adventure of the noble bachelor -- The adventure of the beryl coronet -- The adventure of the copper beeches. A               collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," and "The               Adventure of the Speckled Band.".

FIC DOY Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes. New York : Morrow, c1992. A collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," and "The Adventure of the Speckled               Band.".

FIC LEN L'Engle, Madeleine. Troubling a star. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a               dangerous mystery.

FIC LEO Leonard, Constance. Shadow of a ghost. New York : Dodd, Mead, c1978. Kathy Reade's trip to England involves her with a               family that has been haunted for many years by the legend and ghost of a gypsy dancer.

FIC PRI Priestly, Chris. Death and the arrow. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2003. After his friend Will, a pickpocket in London in 1715, is murdered as part of a series of mysterious deaths, fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe asks his friend Dr. Harker to help find the killer.

FIC THU Thurber, James, 1894-1961. The night the ghost got in. Mankato, Minn. : Creative Education, c1983. The brief appearance of               a ghost late at night begins a series of comic misunderstandings during which the narrator's mother throws a shoe through a neighbor's window and his grandfather shoots a policeman.

FIC ZOR Zorn, Steve. Mostly Ghostly : Eight Spooky Tales to Chill Your Bones. Courage Books, c1991. Abridged versions of classic chillers by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Nesbit, Washington Irving, and others.