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Astride their ponies, Ginger and Oreo, twelve year olds, Amy Jo and Becky solve mysteries and crimes . While housesitting at the Funderburg home, Amy Jo and Becky discover a hidden door leading to a series of underground tunnels. Strange markings on the tunnel wall, visible only with a black light, lead them farther and farther into the passageways where the Pony Investigators uncover a fiendish plot. Before they can warn the police, the girls are caught in a trap where there seems no possible way of escape.

Astride their ponies, Oreo and Ginger, Amy Jo and Becky solve mysteries in the town of Bedford. Elderly Mrs. Martin has money hidden throughout her house. After suffering a stroke, she is confined to bed and two people are hired to care for her. When money goes missing from her purse, the Pony Investigators take drastic measures to discover who the thief is before the entire fortune is stolen.

Lancelot and Mr. Biggs face a traitor, an intruder, and an imposter in this second book in the Lancelot Maddox series. There’s a traitor at the intelligence agency. Lancelot and Mr. Biggs must discover who the traitor is before classified information falls into the hands of foreign agents. An intruder hides explosives at various places in the intelligence agency. Lancelot and Mr. Biggs must locate the intruder and the explosives before it’s too late. Mr. Biggs’ life is threatened by an imposter delivering toxic material disguised as regular mail. When the imposter kidnaps Lancelot, Mr...

Astride their ponies, Ginger and Oreo, Amy Jo and Becky solve mysteries and crimes in the town of Bedford. In The Case of the Mysterious Circus, everyone is on edge when unexplained accidents occur at the circus. Amy Jo and Becky become immersed in the intrigue after they land jobs giving pony rides, Tension heightens when a menacing note attached to a knife warns them to leave the circus or face the consequences.

Cynthia Treadwell is not just hunting a killer, she's the prey they never saw coming. Cynthia Treadwell is drawn into another murder investigation but this time, she becomes the target. Miss Treadwell meets a man who is shrouded, not only in clothing, but also in mystery. She joins him on a park bench where he warns her that her life is in danger. He identifies himself as Benjamin Carter. His story takes her back twenty-five years to the murder of his aunt where two teenagers were falsely accused of the crime. Miss Treadwell knew the young men were innocent but was helpless to prove it. ...

"Kathleen Pennell has written this second mystery with a lovable and interesting woman as the lead. If you enjoy reading mysteries that happen to everyday people you'll enjoy "The Man At The Ruins". This is the second novel with Miss Cynthia Treadwell as the lead. She is a wonderfully intelligent woman who seems to arrives at a new place to take pictures and gets drawn into a mystery. As you will read the adventure, you'll think all the time, what plot twists lie ahead. Even when the book is finished, there are questions unanswered. You will enjoy reading this and her first." - Diane

In this first of three fast-paced, short stories, a mysterious woman gives Lancelot a message written in code which he must deliver to the intelligence agency. Adept at solving puzzles, Lancelot decodes it. Mr. Biggs, Head of Security, is to meet an agent at a safehouse. But is this a trap? Lancelot follows Mr. Biggs to the safehouse where they must overcome the threat of foreign agents. The Boy on the Bench sets the stage for this four-book series wherein Lancelot and Mr. Biggs fight the enemy at home and abroad.

Five undercover agents operating in an unfriendly country must flee through a predetermined route. Four return safely but the fifth one, Agent Cougar, is caught by foreign agents before he can report to the intelligence agency. Lancelot is given a tie with a microdot embedded detailing the capture and present location of the captured agent. Now, it’s up to Lancelot and Mr. Biggs to plan an escape for Agent Cougar. The Missing Agent, which contains six short stories, is the third book in the exciting Lancelot Maddox series.

In this fourth book in the Lancelot Maddox series, it’s a race against time as Mr. Biggs and Lancelot fly two hundred miles to hear the condemning evidence of a dying prisoner. He provides names and dates of crimes committed by a mafia family. On their return flight, the plane’s engine dies and Mr. Biggs is badly injured while making an emergency landing near a deserted mountain ski lodge in the middle of a vast forest. Knowing the mafia will search for them, it’s up to Lancelot to care for Mr. Biggs and stay one step ahead of the people who engineered the accident.

Astride their ponies, Ginger and Oreo, Amy Jo and Becky solve mysteries and crimes in the town of Bedford. In The Case of the Phantom Stallion, Amy Jo and Becky secure a job at Shamrock Stables working for owner, Freddie Myers. Flash O' Lightning, a valuable race horse, disappears in the middle of the night. When the alarm system fails to activate, it is as if Flash O' Lightning vanished into thin air. A torn note leads to an early arrest, but after a thorough investigation, the location of the missing horse remains a mystery. The Pony Investigators place themselves in danger as they search...