Mysteries 1-20

Stacey and the Missing Ring
Beware, Dawn!
Mallory and the Ghost Cat
Kristy and the Missing Child
Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic
The Mystery at Claudia's House
Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs
Jessi and the Jewel Thieves
Kristy and the Haunted Mansion
Stacey and the Mystery Money
Claudia and the Mystery at the Museum
Dawn and the Surfer Ghost
Mary Anne and the Library Mystery
Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall
Kristy and the Vampires
Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph
Dawn and the Halloween Mystery
Stacey and the Mystery at the Empty House
Kristy and the Missing Fortune
Mary Anne and the Zoo Mystery

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#1 Stacey and the Missing Ring

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Sometimes Stacey likes to clean, and don't think she's nuts.
Stacey can't have syrup on her naturally sweet pancakes, because she has diabetes. That's right, Stacey McGill has diabetes!
Mrs. McGill had a bitchin sweet 16 party.
Stacey's birthstone is a diamond.
Mallory dreams of owning a golden palamino, but right now the Pikes' house is too crowded.
Charlie's going to a movie with "some of the guys" to check out girls.
Claudia carries a plastic lunch box as a purse.
Stacey sees couples walking along with their hands in each other's back pockets.
The edge of the fountain at the mall is a cool place to hang out.
The Gardellas= nuts.
Jessi's reading BLACK Beauty.
Squirt Speak: Ba= belly button
Charlie goes to the movies with own friends.
Claudia wears a size 7 shoe.
Claudia makes an ear cuff for Stacey.
Mal asks Claudia, "Would you do me sometime?" Dirty!
Mrs. P. reeks of perfume.
Jenny's baby is Pee-Wee.
Mary Anne wonders if the baby swallowed the ring.
Fights: Stacey vs Claudia

#2 Beware, Dawn!

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Ben and Mallory are on a library date.
Mal is a bonzer sheila.
Jessi and Mal giggle and roll around on the ground, crashing into furniture and people.
Good God! The Pikes are some of the healthiest-looking kids in town. What's wrong with those other kids?
Mr. X threatens Frodo!
Vanessa wants to put Frodo in the oven.
Becca's favorite show is The Cosby Show.
Mal called a teacher "Mom."
Stacey gets to go to a movie premiere and meet Rik Devine (porno name), the most gorgeous hunk ever to walk the earth
Charlotte has at least 2 cavities.
The baked beans on the front step- totally gross.
A sleepover and a pizza toast!

#3 Mallory and the Ghost Cat

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Mal's favorite vegetable is the artichoke. They're a special Pike treat.
Vanessa's poet phase has been going since she was 7.
Margo is fascinated by underwear sightings.
"Bobical Hut!!" said Claire, a little hysterically.
Jessi and Mal pretened they're horses! This is a deep dark secret!
Mr. Pike had a dog named Spanky.
This is the book that brings us UNCLE JOE!
Mr. Pike has a big man crush on Uncle Joe.
Kristy's mom plays tennis with Mrs. Craine.
Mal's bed turns into a mass of squirming, giggling, shrieking boys.
What if Aunt Bud offers Mal a beer?
Margaret Craine has a Simpsons sleeping bag.
The Mallory Special: salsa, brick of cheese, burritos
Uncle Joe snoozes at Mrs. Murphy's, Mal's neighbor.
Claudia is an old person expert.
Dawn can test for ectoplasm with a fake cardboard thing.
Claire has a dress that she has worn nearly everyday for the past 6 months. She even sleeps in it sometimes.
Margo gets carsick in town.

#4 Kristy and the Missing Child

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
This is the first time Kristy sits for the Kuhns.
Jake's favorite Ninja Turtle is Donatello.
All of a sudden, Mary Anne sucks at home ec.
Mary Anne invented Jell-o Jigglers!
Mr. Thomas does something with horses.
Kristy's search party goes to Jugtown.
High school boys play in a club house.
Mary Anne, Claudia, and Kristy used to go to a convenience store everyday.
Bart wears acid wash jeans.
Alan says Pete's going to with the "booby prize" (for bra snapping?)
Stupid Justin Forbes wins class clown.
Mary Anne wins Most Improved Home-Ec Student (how embarrassing!)
Kristy gets an award for helping find Jake.
Bart kisses Kristy.

#5 Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Sharon never owned a vacuum before she married Richard.
Mary Anne reads Sassy magazine- Sharon puts it in the freezer.
Dawn is good at analyzing dreams.
Dawn eats Health-i-o's cereal.
Claudia once made a portrait of Tigger.
In a wedding picture, Richard is smiling like he has a "wonderful" secret. More like a murderous secret!
Tell Carrot "out of kitchen" if you want him to leave.
There's a squirrel in Mary Anne's attic.
Stoneybrook began in 1791.
One of Watson's favorite jokes: "People are DYING to get into cemetaries." Haw! Haw!
Mary Anne finds Mimi's grave.
Mimi moved in with the Kishis after her husband died.
Mary Anne's mom was named Alma Baker. Bill and Verna are Alma's parents. Bill kicked the bucket a week ago.
Jessi wants Mal to sleep with tiny braids in her hair- scary!
Dawn and Stacey bought matching jumpsuits and want to wear them on the same day.
Mary Anne lived with her grandparents from age 6 months to 18 months.
A cardboard cutout of Old Hickory is very popular.
Logan takes his shirt off at Mary Anne's in front of the BSC and later answers the door with no shirt or shoes.
Charlotte's great-grandma was a hat-maker.
Greenvale is 30 miles from Stoneybrook and George Washington slept there.
Mary Anne says about Richard: "He has nothing to hide."
Mr. Pike and cardboard Sophie make quite a couple.
This book has a lot of references to Dawn and cute boys.
Mary Anne goes on a date with another boy!! (Bob the hick)
Claudia is making a cow sculpture.

#6 The Mystery at Claudia's House

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Claudia considers her junk food paintings to be portraits of loved ones.
PS 162 has become even MORE popular!
Derek Masters was on some episodes of Kid Detectives and all the Baby-Sitters love it.
Janine takes the schoolbus.
The library's budget was cut recently.
Janine has a Dutch-boy haircut.
Claudia gives Janine a makeover.
Stacey pants into the phone at the Masters'.
Mr. Kishi golfs and likes to mow the lawn.
The Pike boys pimp Vanessa.
Jerry Michaels is a junior in Advanced Placement, has sisters, drives a little red car, is hunky, and sends Janine things in the mail.
Jerry told Janine he liked her in spite of her looks- ouch!
Wool makes Jerry too itchy.
Jessi was hoping Janine was a klepto.

#7 Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Dawn is a vegetarian because she doesn't like meat.
Dawn doesn't believe in kissing cats.
Dawn talks about Buzz flying in potatoes again.
Mary Anne shudders when she hears the name Barney.
Cheryl knows how to spell "walk."
The Mancusis keep their hamsters and guinea pigs in the kitchen.
Cheryl weighs 120 pounds.
The Mancusis got a new iguana named Petie.
Dawn doesn't think rabbits are cute.
The Krashers are formed in this book.
Kristy's late for a club meeting because Dog Shannon is missing.
In Kristy's front yard there is a "wire that stretches across" with a chain attached for Shannon. What?
Bo is brown and smaller than puppy Shannon.
Claire throws 4 tantrums at 1 practice.
The police officer behind the counter at the police station yawns A LOT.
Maine Coon cats (at the pet store) may be crossed with racoons.
Claudia licked a big, brown dog.
Karl Tate is was one of the richest men in Stoneybrook.
Mrs. Tate drives a red Mercedes.
Dawn predicts that Kristy and Mary Anne will have more pets than the Mancusis.
Charlotte combs Carrot's hair the wrong way, making him look very strange and very unhappy.
Margo says she only barfs on long trips.
The pet-napping ring is stupid. What if people see their dogs with someone else?
The BSC gets in the newspaper.

#8 Jessi and the Jewel Thieves

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Jessi includes Misty as part of her family.
Stacey gets perms, body waves, or rolls her hair up on little rubber things. Her nail polish often has sparkles.
Mr. Pike went to college with a man who became the drummer for a jazz band.
Claudia has a leopard-print jean jacket that is too sophisticated for Jessi.
Becca sucks.
What's so hard about signalling a cab?
Eloise was Jessi's favorite book when she was little.
Laine bought all that stupid stuff for Stacey (in #43) at Mythology, but it's now closed.
Sandwiches with the crusts cut off are very fancy.
Jessi pretends "Charger" the carousel horse is real. Playing horses without Mallory :(
The journal entries are all screwed up.
Jessi and Quint dig through the garbage like bums and find dog barf.
Paper towel rolls= hoohoo tubes (at the Pike's).
Jessi thinks she and Quint could pass for cops.
The Junk Bucket wouldn't start.
Jessi breaks up with Quint and wants to stay just friends with Curtis.

#9 Kristy and the Haunted Mansion

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
There are 9 Krashers: Jerry, Joey, Chris, Patty, David Michael, Buddy, Karen, Nicky, Jackie (but there have been changes)
Redfield is 30 miles away from Stoneybrook.
The vice-president of the country doesn't have a lot of duties, just like Claudia!
Claudia can tell you the ingredients and special properties of every candy bar on the market.
Kristy is afraid of lightning (it might weld her zipper shut).
Dawn's going to take a shower (during a thunderstorm), Mary Anne says she'll be in in a minute.
Joey from the Bashers plays the piano beautifully.
Kristy (again) says she doesn't like squirrels. She also dislikes cabbage, loose teeth, dressing up, and people who chew with their mouths open.
Bart's favorite thing to do is be with Kristy.
Charlie remembers holding baby Kristy.
Charlie snores loudly and David Michael mutters in his sleep.
Stacey likes: Sam (off and on)
Dawn ~~lies~~ exagerrates Kristy's story.
Group hugs are a BSC tradition.
Pizza stuff: Sausage & mushrooms for Kristy and Claudia, onions & mushrooms for Dawn and Jessi, extra cheese & pepperoni for Mal and Mary Anne, plain for Stacey
Claudia tells a ghost story that happened to her cousin, but she doesn't have cousins until #97.
Pizza toast!
Jessi and Mal whisper together over a book of horse pictures.

#10 Stacey and the Mystery Money

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Stacey likes: Sam (but they're dating other people), Terry Hoyt. She also still thinks about Wes.
Sam brought a rubber tarantula to the winter formal and played with it.
Stacey wants hazel eyes, Claudia wants green.
Terry has a twin named Tasha.
CHARLIE HAS A CRUSH ON A 13-YEAR OLD.
Alan and his friends might be looking up dirty words in the dictionary.
The Rosebud Special is a turkey sandwich with a secret pink dressing.
Sam's dating a redhead named Kathy. Sam and Stacey are jealous of each other's dates.
Logan likes the Yankees.
Stacey's giving a "blow-by-blow" description of her date.
There is a Man with a Blue Tattoo on the loose in Stoneybrook. Claudia wants a peace sign tat on her left earlobe.
The teachers smoke in the teachers' lounge at SMS.
Terry= David Hawthorne
Terry kisses Stacey.

#11 Claudia and the Mystery at the Museum

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
If you could be an animal, what would you be? Kristy= dog. Claudia= parrot; the flashiest, coolest bird in the jungle. Stacey= a big jungle cat; a lion or panther. Mary Anne= koala that would let children hug her. Dawn= dolphin. Jessi= lipizzaner stallion; it dances! Mallory= Black Beauty horse. Logan= hawk; to catch critters... or to fly. Shannon= lazy cat.
The Kishis have a fireplace.
Janine taught herself to read before kindergarten.
GROSS: Nicky wore the same socks for 3 weeks.
Sitting on a bed next to his girlfriend makes Logan uncomfortable.
Mal is getting mono.
Claire has a talent for singing...
What happened to the Pike Family Barf Bucket? Now it's a bag.
Claudia wears one of Mimi's kimonos to the formal art gallery party.
Ms. Stotler is the principal of SES.
The BSC is in the newspaper again.
Pizza toast!

#12 Dawn and the Surfer Ghost

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Gozzie Kunka watches over Carolyn Arnold.
Dawn is taking surfing lessons, but she knew a little about surfing before.
Maggie and Jill like horseback riding better than surfing, although Jill was a serious surfer in Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever.
Thrash is the hottest surfer around.
Mallory is getting over mono, so Shannon is a full-time member.
Aunt Cecelia is Jessi's great-aunt? No!
Sunny is the only member of the club that Dawn knows well.
Maggie has a little brother named Zeke who has been in a few commercials.
Description of Dawn's school on page 24.
Thrash is 20-ish and seems like he has a crush on Dawn.
Stacey's surfing friends from SS#5 return.
This book has lots of radical surfer dudes with radical surfer names (Spanky).
Jeff has skateboarding buddies.
Marilyn has been taking piano lessons since she was four.
A girl named Brenda gets her eyebrows burned off at the concession stand.
Margo and Marilyn like a group called The Flying Horses. Mal and Jessi probably do, too.
Stephie's reading Narnia.
Dawn eats all of her supper at the restaurant and part of Sunny's.

#13 Mary Anne and the Library Mystery

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Logan has a "delicious Southern drawl."
Mary Anne misses Logan because he is too busy being on the volleyball team.
Byron loves reptiles.
Mary Anne has read books with dirty words in them.
Richard lets Mary Anne read anything she wants.
Charlotte gave a special book report about the Narnia series.
Was there really a new Marguerite Henry book in 1994?
Sean burns: Deenie, A Light in the Attic, and Tom Sawyer.
Claudia thinks brown M&M's taste the best, followed by the reds.
Bertha Dow is a Stoneybrook book-banner.
There is a neighborhood ritzier than Kristy's.
Alan spanks another boy on page 112.
Claudia is so worked up that she forgot how to make PAPIER-MACHE!
Sean Addison is a sick freak and so are his parents.
SMS starts on fire due to electrical wires.

#14 Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Stacey is thinking about going to business school and becoming a trader on the stock exchange.
Jobs: Stacey= Toy Town. Claudia= The Artist's Exchange. Kristy= mall cop. Logan= Casa Grande. Mal= BookCenter. Mary Anne= Critters. Jess= Cinema World. Alan= Just Desserts.
The BSC has to make changes due to the jobs. Shannon is single-handedly running the BSC.
Charlie makes Logan blush.
Kristy likes Special Dark Hershey's chocolate.
Mal's favorite place at Washington Mall is Casa Grande.
Mr. Morton is always seen on the security tapes with a bunch of kids that aren't his. Pedophile?
Shannon thinks Shea has a crush on her.
Blue is Logan and Cam's favorite color.
Claudia is an ace with the microfiche reader.
Fire alarm in the mall- Sean Addison?
Stacey likes older guys, like Steve Matthews.
Claudia has a Swatch.
Stacey's favorite poster has a basset hound on it.
Logan might want to go to cooking school.

#15 Kristy and the Vampires

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
David Michael's hair has soft curls that are the envy of the BSC.
Nannie plays poker and takes aqua-aerobics classes.
Stacey's hair is permed into a curly mass.
David Michael digs up a corner of the yard every once in awhile, looking for treasure.
Kristy went through a phase when she was afraid of mummies.
Todd Masters has a small part in the movie.
There are at least 60 people involved with making Little Vampires. What a crappy movie.
There are 3 motels on the outskirts of Stoneybrook- George Washington, Sleepy Bear, and Kozy Kabins. Where is the Strathmoore?
Cokie has a pool. And contaminated food.
The director says Mallory has "great hair."
Kristy gets in the newspaper.

#16 Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Claudia's taking summer school. Her photography teacher is Mr. Geist and she kind of has a crush on him.
Mr. Kishi used to do photography.
Claudia's Kid-Kit looks like a pirate ship.
There's a bathroom between Claudia and Janine's rooms. It gets made into a temporary darkroom.
Claudia's mom refuses to read Nancy Drew. What a great librarian.
Stacey likes: Robert
Logan is a curly-haired, long-legged, very cute guy.
The Barretts have Mr. Turtle, 15 guppies, and Frisky the gerbil.
Stacey and Claudia like the singer Billy Blue. Kristy's never heard of him.
As Watson always says, "There's no time like the present!"
Adam Pike kicks the barber. He's 10.
Hello, Sergeant Johnson.
Mrs. Kishi's ATM code is Claudia birthday.
The BSC is in the newspaper.

#17 Dawn and the Halloween Mystery

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Jeff and his friends know which neighbors have the best booty.
Jeff has a cowlick.
Winona Ryder gave Maggie a guacamole recipe.
Dawn loves drug stores.
Mrs. Bruen has a daughter and a grandson named Nicholas.
Mr. Schafer drives a red Cavalier.
Sunny's favorite stuffed animal is a crocodile named Captain.
Stacey and Claudia would be jealous of Maggie's style (and rat tail!)
Mary Jane candy!
Dawn drinks a Coke.
Dawn can whistle loudly, like Kristy used to do.
The Schafers hand out candy and not health food at Halloween.

#18 Stacey and the Mystery at the Empty House

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
Mrs. McGill went to Paris her junior year in college and almost married a chef's son (Jean-Paul), but her mom stopped it.
Mrs. McGill speaks French.
Stacey likes: Robert
Claudia is the Junk Food Queen of Stoneybrook.
Last month Claudia's Kid-Kit looked like a pirate ship, now it looks like a jeweled handbag.
Jessi wouldn't mind showing off her beautiful legs.
The Johannsen's have a small house and a red mailbox with a goose painted on it.
Carrot's favorite toy is Mister Manny Man.
Carrot likes to sleep in.
Carrot is muscular and medium-sized.
The Arnolds go crazy with Christmas decorations.
Marilyn has a bowl cut and Carolyn has a mullet.
The Kuhns are Jewtastic! This book teaches us how to play dreidel.
Stacey has a see-through Swatch.
143 means "I love you" in the Ramsey house.
Stacey wears a silk teddy on the sleigh ride.
The Ramseys celebrate Kwanzaa.
Logan and Mary Anne= Santa and Mrs. Claus.

#19 Kristy and the Missing Fortune

Ghostwriter: Ellen Miles
"Stacey has a record of every baby-sitting dollar every BSC member has ever earned." p. 17
After dropping Kristy off at the meeting, Charlie says he's going to go home and "oil" his "glove." Innuendo!
Mallory wears a big yellow button that says, "I Read Banned Books."
Jessi is the plant-sitter for Mrs. Dodson. The BSC takes jobs that don't involve kids.
Mallory hates gardening.
Mary Anne wants to make some cat toys.
Watson now has time to watch a half-hour episode of Barney with Emily Michelle. Yay for heart attacks!
Nannie likes the Knicks.
Nannie has been mentioned in the paper as one of Stoneybrook's best senior bowlers.
Mary Anne once referred to Cokie as her "mortal enemy."
Even Cokie's grandma calls her "Cokie."
Mal wants a ranch in Montana filled with gorgeous horses.
Kristy and Cokie might be related.
The BSC is in the newspaper.

#20 Mary Anne and the Zoo Mystery

Ghostwriters: Jahnna & Malcolm (on crack)
Dawn gets up at 1 pm.
Kristy and Shannon want to operate on muskrats and groundhogs.
No Stacey.
Logan is a natural at science.
Howie and Alan are BFF's.
Mojo knows ASL, so her and Matt can be BFF's.
Howie has freckles.
Emus can live to be over 40 years old (and other great emu facts).
Crazy PETA!
Alan loves seals.
Alan, Howie, and Mary Anne share a soda. Awww.
Mojo is a Koko wannabe.
What's with Babar the elephant living in a mall? How did this happen?
Alexander Kurtzman won the contest, briefcase in hand.
Shawna is still a cheater (but that's according to the BSC).
Mary Anne, Howie, and Alan studied Tigger. Awww!
They talk about that gorilla banana cake a lot!
Mary Anne, Logan, Dawn, Claudia, Howie, and Alan have lifetime passes to the Bedford Zoo.
I wish the Mancusis had been stealing the animals.

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