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Casebusters
Series · 9 books · 1995-1997

Books in series

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#1

The Statue Walks at Night

1995

Helping their private-investigator dad find the culprit who has stolen art from the Redoaks Museum, Sean and Brian Quinn end up in the Egyptian room, where a statue of Anubis is rumored to take midnight strolls
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#2

The Legend of Deadman's Mine

1995

Vacationing at a dude ranch, Sean and Brian Quinn collect evidence that Nightstar, a valuable race-horse, has been stolen and is being held in a haunted abandoned mine
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#3

Backstage with a Ghost

1995

Brian and Sean investigate a series of suspicious accidents at a theater waiting to be torn down.
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#4

Check in to Danger

1995

On a visit to Piney Point Manor, an elegant seaside resort, Sean and Brian Quinn investigate a series of thefts that have baffled local police, and someone tries to frighten the brothers off
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#5

The House Has Eyes

1996

Charles Collier approaches the Casebusters for help when his new house begins making strange noises and seems to be watching him
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#6

Secret of the Time Capsule

1996

When the people of Redoaks open the town's time capsule, buried in 1918, they find that the contents are missing, and Sean and Brian try to discover who removed them and why
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#9

Fear Stalks Grizzly Hill

1996

When Sean and Brian stay with their friend Alan and his family in the wooded area of Grizzly Hill for the weekend, they are told to stay out of the woods, but their curiosity leads them to the edges of the woods where they see glowing eyes and clawed footprints. Original.
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#10

Sabotage on the Set

1996

Working as a standin in a movie being shot in Redoaks, Sean Quinn learns that the cast and crew think the set is jinxed, but he is determined to find out who is behind the apparent accidents
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#11

The Internet Escapade

1997

When an Internet prank turns serious, Sean becomes the main suspect Bored in computer class, Sean Quinn and his friend Matt decide to liven things up with a little computer prank. But the laughs stop quickly when they accidentally hurt a younger student’s feelings, earning themselves a quick trip to the principal’s office. That night, Sean receives an anonymous email praising him for the prank, and promising to avenge his punishment by causing trouble at the school. The next day, a virus wreaks havoc with the school computers, and the principal suspects Sean of being the mastermind! To keep himself out of trouble, Sean asks his brother Brian to help him find the hacker behind the anonymous email. Catching criminals in the real world is tough enough, but when a crook decides to hide behind the computer screen, it will take every trick in the Casebusters’ arsenal to bring this cyber-thug to real-world justice.

Author

Joan Lowery Nixon
Joan Lowery Nixon
Author · 74 books
Author of more than one hundred books, Joan Lowery Nixon is the only writer to have won four Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Juvenile Mysteries (and been nominated several other times) from the Mystery Writers of America. Creating contemporary teenage characters who have both a personal problem and a mystery to solve, Nixon captured the attention of legions of teenage readers since the publication of her first YA novel more than twenty years ago. In addition to mystery/suspense novels, she wrote nonfiction and fiction for children and middle graders, as well as several short stories. Nixon was the first person to write novels for teens about the orphan trains of the nineteenth century. She followed those with historical novels about Ellis Island and, more recently for younger readers, Colonial Williamsburg. Joan Lowery Nixon died on June 28, 2003—a great loss for all of us.
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