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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle

The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family?s estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in.

Originally published in parts as a monthly serial in The Strand Magazine between August 1901 and April 1902, the author described this work as "a real creeper." It is the third of four novels written by Doyle depicting the illustrious character of Sherlock Holmes, and it is easily the most popular.

Size 12 Is Not Fat
by Meg Cabot

Heather Wells Rocks!

Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls ...and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen-not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives -even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!

But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong...

Two of a kind#05: To Snoop or Not to Snoop?
by Judy Katschke

Cool! Mary-Kate and Ashley have a new telescope. Their father bought it so they could learn about the stars. The twins have a better idea, though: They're going to spy on their neighbors!

But the spying turns serious when Mary-Kate sees something she shouldn't. Something that spells big trouble for the twins...