Books like Nightmare by Joan Lowery Nixon

When eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing dies, sixteen heirs race through riddles, blizzards, burglaries and bombs to solve his will and claim a mysterious $10 million inheritance.

Fifteen‑year‑old Lia discovers that the historic Louisiana plantation house her family owns—Graymoss—is haunted by a vengeful spirit. With a diary, Poe stories and her own emerging bravery, she must uncover the evil’s true nature and protect her new home.

A teenage girl from a New Orleans brothel embarks on a murder investigation to get into a prestigious college.

Seventeen‑year‑old Stacy emerges from a four‑year coma and vows to track down and bring justice to the young man who killed her mother and wounded her.

In ‘The House of Dies Drear,’ a Black family discovers that their new home, a former Underground Railroad stop, is haunted by secrets that force them to confront their past and the legacy of slavery.

In this suspenseful mystery, a West Texas high school senior investigates her brother’s coma‑inducing hit‑and‑run, uncovering deep community secrets and tensions.

The Boxcar Children head to summer camp for a week of new friends, thrilling activities, and the annual camp Olympics—only to find everything going wrong as they must uncover the culprit before the games begin.

During a spring break trip to Aruba, a young girl finds herself accused of killing her best friend and must confront betrayal, friendship, and the pressures of a murder trial in a foreign land.

A thrill‑filled mystery about Jess, a high school student whose life turns upside down when two new boys enroll, revealing hidden dangers and a chilling quest for vengeance.

A teenage aspiring artist named Kristi investigates a mysterious link between a dead man's file that contains her childhood and a suspected museum painting theft.

**What secrets does the Shadow Market hold?** The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past. Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah. This description comes from the publisher. *Ghosts of the Shadow Market* takes place in the Shadowhunter world, the first book of which is *City of Bones*.

Detective Lenny Norbeck and his friends investigate a mysterious death at a Phillies game.

"Hide and Seek" is a teen‑fiction mystery about sisters and twins navigating high‑school drama, family secrets, and a homicide that turns the family upside down.

The Collected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe is a collection of short stories and tales by the renowned American author Edgar Allan Poe.

A collection of ten short stories and five poems by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring mystery, horror, and suspense elements.

In 1930s England, boarding‑school friends Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells crack a murder mystery when a dead science teacher is found at their school.

On Halloween, siblings Susan and Mike suspect their new babysitter may be a witch and set out to uncover the truth.

Twelve‑year‑old Megan, an orphan upset by poverty‑driven family separation, discovers hope and belonging when she joins a loving, foster family on the Kansas prairie.

A mystery thriller about a group of runaway teenagers investigating a murdered prostitute in a corrupt Montana town.

At 14, Sherlock Holmes discovers his first murder while staying with his eccentric relatives in Hampshire, setting him on a path that leads to a diabolical villain.

Cary discovers a sinister plot to sabotage her father's gubernatorial campaign in Texas, putting her life—and the political future—at risk.

A collection of eight classic Edgar Allan Poe short stories, ranging from gothic horror like "The Fall of the House of Usher" to early detective tales such as "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Detective stories featuring eccentric suspects and locked-room mysteries, with a focus on American noir and urban crime literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A comprehensive anthology of Edgar Allan Poe’s 68 stories and 31 poems, spanning horror, detective fiction, gothic tales, and lyrical poetry, showcasing his mastery of suspense, the macabre, and the supernatural.

A young detective from the palace must navigate London's underworld and royal intrigue to solve a murder mystery involving a Chinese sailor in Buckingham Palace.