Search for clues hidden in the pictures and help Hound to solve the riddle in this delightful return to the world of Puffin the Architect. I'm Hound! And I'm a sleuth. I solve all types of cases. I sniff and snuff until my nose detects the clues and traces. Missing jewels, stolen cars - I always solve the crime. My latest case arrived by post. Ha ha - detecting time! This gorgeous, multi-layered and engaging whodunnit by an award-winning writer has a delightful surprise at the end. Readers will love studying each action-packed illustration, poring over the details of Hound's secret passages and map, spotting the adorable animals lurking in the pictures, and finding the caterpillar hidden on every page.

Puffin is an architect who always exceeds her clients' expectations, that is, until she takes on the toughest clients ever--her own pufflings. Puffin takes her tricky new clients on an inspirational tour of her builds. Together, they visit all kinds of cleverly designed spaces--Otters floating home, Pig's tool shed on wheels, Painter Goose's light-filled studio, and Platypus's cozy underground bake house. The pufllings are unimpressed. Her clients are a challenge! Will Puffin come up with a puffling-perfect home design? This gorgeous story, with endearing characters, intriguing house designs, ingenious mechanisms, and storage solutions to pore over on every page, will spark a brand new generation of architects, engineers, and designers.

First published: Scholastic Australia Pty, 2006.

An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories. A young Englishman visiting Cornwall finds himself delving into the legend of a Belgian nun who is living as a refugee in the village. Possessed of supernatural powers, she is said to have caused her entire convent to explode when it was occupied by invading German soldiers during World War I. Sister Angelique was the only survivor. Could such a tall tale possibly be true?

He was born in rural Missouri, and it was immediately clear that he was different from the rest. He caught his first criminal when he was just two years old. By his sixth birthday, he had located burglars, missing children, drug dealers, rapists, and murderers—including Utah’s most wanted criminal. Known to friends as JJ, to law enforcement as Michael Serio’s partner, and to captured criminals as “that damned dog,” Jessie Jr., an exceptionally talented bloodhound, bayed like a sea lion that had swallowed a fog horn. Before JJ, few police departments in the West used bloodhounds, and none in Utah. But just when JJ was finally convincing naysayers, he and Officer Serio ran into something worse than resistance: the despair of failure amid high hope. JJ had been tracking Brian David Mitchell, the man who abducted Elizabeth Smart, when he was pulled off the track. Elizabeth later told investigators that on the day she was kidnapped she heard a dog baying in the woods behind her. In almost nine years of service, JJ helped apprehend nearly 300 criminal suspects in the Salt Lake City area. Here is his remarkable story, fleas and all. Click here to view the trailer for Bloodhound in Blue.

When one of his detectives-in-training spots a woman with nearly all of the signs of a criminal, young Damian Drooth tails her through a dog show and learns that she really is up to no good.

Meet spunky sleuth Shelby and her sports loving sidekick Watson, as they take on a dog-napper in this fresh twist on Sherlock Holmes.