Books like Friday Barnes, under suspicion by R. A. Spratt

When Pip and Bets’ neighbor Lady Candling’s prized cat, Dark Queen, disappears, the five young detectives must uncover the culprit to clear steward Luke’s name.

Rory Deveaux, scarred by a Jack the Ripper copycat, returns to London where her ability to vanish ghosts puts her at odds with the city’s secret police as new mysterious deaths threaten the city.

An orphaned genius homeschooled to attend high school, where she forms a close-knit circle of eccentric friends and observes the world through gardening.

A fifth-grader with a hidden genius scheme causes chaos at school.

R. A. Spratt’s Friday Barnes 5 is a mystery and detective story that draws readers into a new chapter of an intriguing sleuthing tale.

255, [27] pages : 20 cm

A compilation of thirteen Agatha Christie short stories, each ending with a clever twist. The tales feature beloved detectives such as Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne.

Friday Barnes is sent to Switzerland, then returns to find Highcrest Academy in chaos after a prank fires all teachers. Determined, she hunts the culprit, clears her rival Ian Wainscott’s name, and fights to restore the school.

Genius teen detective Friday Barnes uncovers a series of puzzling crimes at her elite boarding school, from stolen homework to a mysterious yeti haunting the swamp.

This is a great book for a young reader. Friday Barnes is forced to face her biggest fear – her own emotions! She must wave goodbye to Ian as he takes off to join his father in the Cayman Islands. But when your dad is a white-collar criminal, family reunions never go to plan. Ian is kidnapped en route and it’s up to Friday to rescue him. On her return to school, the Headmaster has a treat in store – a four-week camp for students to learn wilderness survival skills! ‘Camp Courage’ is even worse than Friday imagined. And all her book smarts aren't much help when she's got wood to chop, potatoes to peel and latrines to dig. Can Friday survive the great outdoors, debunk the legend of a camp ghost and make it back to Highcrest Academy alive? Only time (and a compass) will tell!

After a run‑of‑the‑mill mischief lands her at a boys‑only boarding school, teenage Anne battles class, friendship, and a roommate’s shocking death in this young‑adult mystery of secrets and survival.

At Temperley High, a strict English boarding school, seventeen‑year‑old Stella Hamilton dominates the exclusive clique while aiming to become Head Girl and secure a romance with her equally popular classmate—until the arrival of New Yorker Caitlin Clarke threatens to upend her plans.

When Hartley Featherstone starts a school‑paper feature, she discovers the interview subject dead in a swimming pool, plunging her into a teenage mystery that tests her grit and journalistic instincts.

Malcolm, a small rat with big determination, lives at McKenna School and is part of a secret society of classroom pets meant to keep children in line. When iguana Aggy vanishes, Malcolm must prove his innocence and save her.

Cruciverbalists, rejoice! Pick up a pencil and get ready to solve a puzzling murder-and an actual crossword puzzle-in this sparkling debut of a unique amateur detective: Miss Cora Felton, an eccentric old lady with a syndicated puzzle column, an irresistible urge to poke into unsettling events, and a niece who's determined to keep her out of trouble. When the body of an unknown teenage girl turns up in the cemetery in the quiet town of Bakerhaven, Police Chief Dale Harper finds himself investigating his first homicide. A baffling clue leads him to consult Bakerhaven's resident puzzle expert-his first big mistake. Soon Cora's meddling, mischief-making behavior drives Chief Harper to distraction and inspires many cross words from her long-suffering niece, Sherry. But when another body turns up in a murder that hits much closer to home, Cora must find a killer-before she winds up in a wooden box three feet across...and six down.

Eleven-year-old Nell moves to Chicago to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the pioneering female detective of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, and helps her solve intriguing mysteries including one linked to Abraham Lincoln and her own family.

A young child's quest to save the world from a malevolent artificial intelligence genius and the villainous forces he serves, set in a sci-fi universe where the line between good and evil is thin and the stakes are high.