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Good-hearted kids solve mysteries in fun, short chapters.

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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this book.

The three kids learn a bit about nature, science a

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose want to solve mysteries

All the adults are supportive and caring, and they

Not so much scary as very mildly tense, which is e

Parents need to know that Ron Roy's A to Z Mysteries series is a wholesome, funny bunch of sleuthing stories that have just enough twists to keep readers interested, and enough clues that readers can solve the mystery before Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. The kids are always trying to help others and do the right thing,…

Educational Value

The three kids learn a bit about nature, science and history while solving cases using logic, keen observation skills, perseverance. Not a lot of true academic content, but there's plenty to learn in these books.

Positive Messages

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose want to solve mysteries not because of what they might gain, but because learning the truth and doing the right thing are important, and they honestly want to help other people.

Positive Role Models

All the adults are supportive and caring, and they encourage the kids' sleuthing and independence. The kids are kind to one another -- no social drama here.

Violence & Scariness

Not so much scary as very mildly tense, which is exactly what a mystery series for beginning readers should deliver.

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Parents need to know that Ron Roy's A to Z Mysteries series is a wholesome, funny bunch of sleuthing stories that have just enough twists to keep readers interested, and enough clues that readers can solve the mystery before Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. The kids are always trying to help others and do the right thing, like when they gave their reward money to a high school kid so he could afford college. There's nothing scary in these mysteries, the chapters are short, and everything wraps up nicely at the end of each book: good guys win, bad guys lose. The kids’ audio streaming platform Pinna features seasons of the interactive mystery podcast, A to Z Mysteries: Clue Club , based on the book series.

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In the A TO Z MYSTERY series, young friends Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose work together to solve mysteries in and around their town of Green Lawn. They cases range from smaller issues (finding a secret valentine or a missing lottery ticket), to solving the case of a kidnapped author, a stolen mummy, a bank robbery, and more. Their adventures occasionally taken them outside Green Lawn, but they mysteries are always solved by the end of the book, with a happily-ever-after conclusion.

Is It Any Good?

These are great mysteries for beginning readers. The chapters are short but interesting, the friends are funny and helpful, and the mysteries aren't too complicated. There are bits of humor for adults reading along, such as the California-bound thief named Dorothy Calm, aka Dot Calm. The three friends in A to Z Mysteries are always on the go, and while their parents are mentioned, they never worry that elementary school kids are chasing felons -- and neither will readers.

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  • Author : Ron Roy
  • Illustrator : John Steve Gurney
  • Genre : Mystery
  • Topics : Adventures , Friendship , Great Boy Role Models , Great Girl Role Models
  • Book type : Fiction
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Publication date : September 23, 1997
  • Publisher's recommended age(s) : 6 - 9
  • Number of pages : 96
  • Available on : Paperback, Audiobook (unabridged), Hardback, iBooks, Kindle
  • Last updated : July 13, 2017

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A to Z Mysteries Books In Order

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A-Z Mysteries series by Ron Roy Author Ron Roy pens the “A-Z Mysteries” series of children’s chapter books. The series began publication in the year with the release of “The Absent Author” which was released in the year 1997. Ron got to the end of the alphabet with “The Zombie Zone”, which is the 26th and final book of the series and was released in the year 2005.

The series is linked to Roy’s other series, the “Calendar Mysteries” series. It stars Dink Duncan, Ruth Rose Hathaway, and Josh Pinto. They are smart kids that solve mysteries and crimes, and are third graders who live close to one another. The kids live in Green Lawn, Connecticut, a tiny town. The kids have pets, parents, and hobbies, however they love a good mystery more than anything else in the entire world.

After writing “The Absent Author”, he just knew he wanted to pen more stories about Josh, Ruth Rose, and Dink. He saw those two A’s in the title and thought about having two B’s and then two C’s for the sequels. So he started working on the Bald Bandit and the Canary Caper. From here the A to Z Mysteries were born!

“The Absent Author” is the first novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1997. Dink writes to Wallis Wallace (his favorite author and mystery writer), and he invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink’s amazement, Wallace agrees to come. However when the big day comes, Wallace isn’t anywhere to be found.

The cops just think he missed his flight, but Dink suspects some foul play. It is up to Dink and Ruth Rose and Josh (his two best friends) to locate this famous writer, before it’s too late.

“The Bald Bandit” is the second novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1997. The Green Lawn Savings Bank’s just been robbed! A private detective comes up to Dink’s door trying to find the child that got video of the crime, Dink and his buddies volunteer to locate him.

After all, there is a reward involved. However tracking down a red-headed child ain’t so easy, particularly if he does not wish to be found. Could the trio find this kid, and his videotape, before the bandit does?

“The Canary Caper” is the third novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1998. Ruth Rose, Dink, and Josh get an urgent call from one Mrs. Davis. Her canary’s gone missing! The little bird disappeared without a trace, and he isn’t the only one. Two other pets also went missing.

The kids suspect this one pet-napper. Now that Tiger, Ruth Rose’s kitty, wound up missing as well, it has become personal!

“The Deadly Dungeon” is the fourth novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1998. Wallis Wallace has invited Dink, Ruth Rose, and Josh for a sleepover. In a haunted castle!

But just as quickly as the young detectives show up, they begin hearing screams behind the halls. Are they going to find out who, or rather what, is haunting Moose Manor?

“The Empty Envelope” is the fifth novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1998. Dink continues to get envelopes in the mail addressed to “D. Duncan”. However the letters inside all begin with “Dear Doris” and they don’t make any sense at all!

Josh and Ruth Rose believe that somebody’s playing a trick on Dink. However Dink believes that there’s more to it than just that, particularly after Doris herself arrives, demanding her letters!

“The Falcon’s Feathers” is the sixth novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1998. Josh finds a nest of young falcons out in the forest, he, Ruth Rose, and Dink begin visiting every day. Until the morning comes that they find it empty!

Then the children find a wounded falcon that’s had its wing feathers clipped, and they are sure that somebody’s up to nothing good. Could they figure out what is happening before it is too late to save these birds?

“The Goose’s Gold” is the seventh novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1998. Sand, sun, and sunken treasure? That is what Ruth Rose, Dink, and Josh find when they go off on a vacation in Florida. This old ship’s been found right off the coast, and it is filled with gold!

A couple of divers are collecting some donations so the loot can be brought up. They promise to share what they find, however could this be too good to be true? It is up to Dink and his buddies to get to the bottom of things!

“The Haunted Hotel” is the eighth novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1999. One ghostly guest has just checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It is close to Halloween and there are reports of odd sounds and even stranger sights being seen from Green Lawn’s one hotel.

Hotel guests and neighbors are being scared away, and Ruth Rose, Dink, and Josh must figure out what is going on. Before Green Lawn into a ghost town.

“The Invisible Island” is the ninth novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 1999. Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink picnic on Squaw Island and find a hundred dollar bill. When they go back to explore, they find this entire cave just filled with money.

“The Jaguar’s Jewel” is the tenth novel in the “A-Z Mysteries” series and was released in the year 2000. Dink, Ruth Rose, and Josh visit New York City! Dink’s uncle works as a curator at a museum with a dazzling new treasure. It is a statue of a jaguar that cradles an emerald between its front paws.

However, when he learned the emerald was replaced with a fake, Dink’s uncle is the prime suspect. He will go right to jail if Ruth Rose, Josh, and Dink cannot catch the real thief!

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Donald David Dunkin (known as Dink) wrote a letter to his favorite mystery writer, Wallis Wallace. He invited the author to come to town, sent a photo of himself and asked Wallis to return the favor. Wallis wrote back and affirmed his intent to visit. He didn’t send a picture.

The story begins on the day Wallis is scheduled to sign books at a bookshop in Dink’s hometown. Nervous and excited, Dink goes to the crowded bookstore with his best friends, Josh Pinto and Ruth Rose. When the author doesn’t show up, the anxious bookstore owner, Mr. Paskey, cancels the signing.

Dink is more than disappointed. He’s worried. His letter from Wallis stated that nothing short of being kidnapped would keep him from attending the signing. As Dink shares his concerns with his friends, a soft-spoken woman approaches and introduces herself as Mavis Green. She says she is a fan of Wallis as well. She also has a letter from the author, in which he indicates he was being followed. Dink is determined to figure out who has kidnapped Wallis. His friends and Mavis join him in the search.

Dink concludes that if Wallis had followed his itinerary, he would have landed at the airport, ridden in a taxi, checked in at the hotel and then attended the book signing. Dink calls to confirm that Wallis was on his flight. The group also talks with the taxi driver and the hotel clerk. The kids hear sounds near Wallis’ hotel room. When the clerk, Mr. Linkletter, opens the door to the room, they find a man tied up in it.

The tied-up man tells them he is Wallis. Despite his admission, Ruth Rose isn’t convinced. She points out some subtle clues she’s noticed during the time they’ve spent with Mavis Green. The girl suggests Mavis is actually Wallis Wallace.

Mavis admits this is true; “Wallis Wallace” is her pen name. The man in the hotel room is her brother who, like Mr. Paskey and Mr. Linkletter, was in on her secret. She tells the kids she is working on a new mystery book about children searching for a missing author. She wanted to see firsthand how real kids would go about solving the case. She says she will be dedicating her next book to Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose.

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After I wrote The Absent Author, I knew I wanted to write more about Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. I looked at those two A's in the title and thought, why not two B's, then two C's? So I began working on the Bald Bandit and the Canary Caper. And that's how A to Z Mysteries were born!

This series features three smart kids who solve crimes and mysteries. They live in a small town in Connecticut, called Green Lawn. The kids are Dink Duncan, Josh Pinto, and Ruth Rose Hathaway. They are third graders and live near each other. They have hobbies and pets and parents, but what they love most is a good mystery. Most kids tell me they enjoy reading the 26 books in alphabetical order. But you can skip around without missing anything. Have fun getting to know these three sly sleuths!

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Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve their first four mysteries! A is for AUTHOR . . . Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writer Wallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. Wonder of wonders, Wallace says yes! In fact, the famous writer says that the only way he won’t come is if he’s kidnapped. But when the big day comes, Wallis Wallace is nowhere to be found. The police think he just missed his plane, but Dink knows better. It’s up to Dink and his two best friends, Josh and Ruth Rose, to find Wallace—before it’s too late! B is for BANDIT . . . A bandit has robbed the Green Lawn Savings Bank! Dink and his friends Josh and Ruth Rose are ready to help. When a private detective comes to Dink’s door looking for the kid who videotaped the crime, the trio volunteers to find him. After all, there’s a reward! But tracking down one red-headed kid isn’t such an easy job, especially if he doesn’t want to be found. Dink and his friends must find that kid—and his tape—before the bandit does! C is for CANARY . . . Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose get an urgent call from Mrs. David. Her canary is gone! And that’s not all. Three other pets have mysteriously disappeared—including Ruth Rose’s cat, Tiger! The kids are sure a pet-napper is to blame. They won’t stop until they’ve tracked down the thief and returned the stolen pets to their rightful owners! D is for DUNGEON . . . Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are having a sleepover—in a castle! Dink’s favorite mystery writer, Wallis Wallace, has invited them for a visit. But as soon as they arrive, the kids start hearing screams behind the walls. Wallis Wallace says not to worry, every castle is haunted, but Dink isn’t so sure. Can they discover who—or what —is haunting Moose Manor?

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‘The Mysteries’ Review: Exploring an Enigma

Almost 30 years after calling it quits with “Calvin and Hobbes,” Bill Watterson is back.

For 10 glorious years, starting in 1985, Mr. Watterson brought the world the misadventures of a shock-headed 6-year-old boy named Calvin and his boon companion, a stuffed toy tiger named Hobbes who, when the two are alone, becomes a lithe and muscular big cat. “Calvin and Hobbes” ran daily in thousands of newspapers, six days a week in a black-and-white comic strip and on Sundays in an expanded full-color format. And then—oof!—it was over.

“It’s always better to leave the party early,” Mr. Watterson has said of his decision, as if a platitude could comfort the legions of fans who had rushed to read “Calvin and Hobbes” before any other part of the paper. There would be no more scenes of the friends exchanging profundities while shooting off a cliff in their little wagon; no more run-ins with the patronizing Susie Derkins; no more extravagant conjurings as Calvin, bored at school, transforms himself in imagination into Spaceman Spiff zapping a hideous interstellar monster (aka his teacher, Miss Wormwood).

“Calvin and Hobbes” was “just” a comic strip, but the cultural loss was real. By ending it after a relatively brief run (by comparison, Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” ran for 50 years), Mr. Watterson didn’t merely remove a delightful entertainment from the public square. He also withdrew a sensibility that enriched the lives of his readers: a philosophical way of seeing the world that was humane, optimistic, wry and full of feeling but never weepy. Yet there it was: In the winter of 1995, Bill Watterson went dark.

Until now. “The Mysteries,” written by Mr. Watterson and illustrated in collaboration with the artist and caricaturist John Kascht, is a short fable for adults so enigmatic as to lend itself to all sorts of interpretations.

In physical form, “The Mysteries” is square in shape, light in the hand and black in color. On the cloth-bound front cover, in one of the mixed-media illustrations that the book’s creators confess that they struggled to develop, a hooded medieval peasant in a dusky forest casts up a look of alarm, as if he can see something awful rising in the distance. The title’s round gothic typeface reinforces our sense that upon opening the book we will be cast into an ominous past—and so, it seems, we are. We learn that in a long-ago forest “shrouded in mists” lived the Mysteries. No picture reveals what the Mysteries are, though one does show a captive Mystery concealed within a fearsome strongbox.

In this story, which Mr. Watterson apparently wrote as a kind of creative prompt for himself and then consigned for ages to a desk drawer, there is no protagonist and no ordinary arc of beginning, middle and end. There is, instead, a tremendous amount of suggestion in a cascade of connected ideas: that once upon a time people feared the Mysteries in the forests; that a king sent bold knights out to learn the secrets of these entities; that though many knights perished (we assume) in the hunt, one did manage to seize his prey; that in rapid order the people ceased feeling awe for the Mysteries, began to laugh at them and then grew bored.

“The Mysteries vanished, and the people lived luxuriously,” we read. “They were finally in control of everything.” In the evocative monochrome illustration that accompanies these lines, a disdainful fellow in medieval attire drinks from a plastic cup while driving a car past a lot of modern street signage. Later our perspective draws out and away, so that we see this world of Mysteries as a tiny orb in a vast universe, as it might present itself to the eye of the Divine—or to the eye of Spaceman Spiff. Are Messrs. Watterson and Kascht warning about the eclipse of traditional religion? Maybe. Are they predicting ecological catastrophe? Possibly. Are they mourning man’s loss of wonder in an age of technological miracles? Perhaps. It may also be that they are trafficking in ambiguity for its own sake: hinting at inscrutable depths in their words and pictures so as to stir the depths of the reader.

“We were trying to make pictures that didn’t show things for a story that didn’t say things,” Mr. Watterson says about the book, with his customary drollery, in a short explanatory video from his publisher. Says Mr. Kascht of the collaborators’ laborious efforts to arrive at a mutually agreeable style of artwork: “Our process was appallingly inefficient and wasteful.” Having given each other veto power, the two went back and forth, groping for ways to express the inexpressible. Neither had any idea how the human characters should look; in the end, Mr. Kascht formed a collection of sculpted heads that the collaborators required to “audition” for placement in the book.

Were it not for Mr. Watterson’s authorship, it is doubtful that the world would make much of “The Mysteries.” It would be one of many ingenious books that come out every year, make no ripple and disappear. It’s a pity when good books go unnoticed, and it is a terrific thing that this provocative and beguiling little volume will enjoy—and is indeed enjoying right now—considerable attention. For lovers of “Calvin and Hobbes,” though, perhaps the most thrilling thing about “The Mysteries” is the realization that, despite his low profile, Bill Watterson has evidently not given up on flexing his creative powers. What other goodies might he have just lying around in a desk drawer? Let us hope he does not keep them a mystery.

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You'll savor the off-beat mysteries served up by 'the kamogawa food detectives'.

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives, by Hisashi Kashiwai

For me, it's a sip of blackberry brandy, the bargain bin kind that my mother kept in the back of a kitchen cabinet. She would dole out a spoonful to me if I had a cold. The very words "blackberry brandy" still summon up the sense of being cared for: a day home from school, nestled under a wool blanket on the couch, watching reruns of I Love Lucy . That spoonful of brandy is my Proust's madeleine in fermented form.

In The Kamogawa Food Detectives , by Hisashi Kashiwai, clients seek out the Kamogawa Diner because their elusive memories can't be accessed by something as simple as a bottle of rail liquor. Most find their way to the unmarked restaurant on a narrow backstreet in Kyoto, Japan, because of a tantalizing ad in a food magazine.

The ad cryptically states: " Kamogawa Diner – Kamogawa Detective Agency- We Find Your Food ." Entering through a sliding aluminum door, intrepid clients are greeted by the chef, Nagare, a retired, widowed police detective and Koishi, his sassy 30-something daughter who conducts interviews and helps cook.

In traditional mystery stories, food and drink are often agents of destruction: Think, for instance, of Agatha Christie and her voluminous menu of exotic poisons. But, at the Kamogawa Diner, carefully researched and reconstructed meals are the solutions, the keys to unlocking mysteries of memory and regret.

The Kamogowa Food Detectives is an off-beat bestselling Japanese mystery series that began appearing in 2013; now, the series is being published in this country, translated into English by Jesse Kirkwood. The first novel, called The Kamogowa Food Detectives , is composed of interrelated stories with plots as ritualistic as the adventures of Sherlock Holmes: In every story, a client enters the restaurant, describes a significant-but-hazily-remembered meal. And, after hearing their stories, Nagare, the crack investigator, goes to work.

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Cozy up in Tokyo's 'Midnight Diner' for the TV version of comfort food

Maybe he'll track down the long-shuttered restaurant that originally served the remembered dish and the sources of its ingredients; sometimes, he'll even identify the water the food was cooked in. One client says he wants to savor the udon cooked by his late wife just one more time before he remarries; another wants to eat the mackerel sushi that soothed him as a lonely child.

But the after effects of these memory meals are never predictable. As in conventional talk-therapy, what we might call here the "taste therapy" that the Kamogawa Food Detectives practice sometimes forces clients to swallow bitter truths about the past.

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Celebrities Need Comfort Food Too: A Hollywood Hangout Turns 100

In the stand-out story called "Beef Stew," for instance, an older woman comes in hoping to once again taste a particular beef stew she ate only once in 1957, at a restaurant in Kyoto. She dined in the company of a fellow student, a young man whose name she can't quite recall, but she does know that the young man impetuously proposed to her and that she ran out of the restaurant. She tells Koishi that: "Of course, it's not like I can give him an answer after all these years, but I do find myself wondering what my life would have been like if I'd stayed in that restaurant and finished my meal."

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Nagare eventually manages to recreate that lost beef stew, but some meals, like this one, stir up appetites that can never be sated.

As a literary meal The Kamogawa Food Detectives is off-beat and charming, but it also contains more complexity of flavor than you might expect: Nagare sometimes tinkers with those precious lost recipes, especially when they keep clients trapped in false memories. Nagare's Holmes-like superpowers as an investigator are also a strong draw. Given the faintest of clues — the mention of a long-ago restaurant with an open kitchen, an acidic, "[a]lmost lemony" taste to a mysterious dish of longed for yellow rice, some Bonito flakes — Nagare recreates and feeds his clients the meals they're starving for, even as he releases others from the thrall of meals past.

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