Top Mystery Books: Nancy Drew "a plucky amateur detective, tackles her own cases,and helps her father, an attorney, with his. Using her curiosity, intelligence, and bravery, Nancy gets to the bottom of the most perplexing mysteries" or so says Fact Monster when they include the the Nancy Drew series in their list of top mystery books. Also included are: the Bernie Magruder series, The Boys of San Joaquin, Chasing Vermeer, the Chet Gecko series, the Encyclopedia Brown series, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Egypt Game, the Herculeah Jones series, the Lady Grace Mysteries, the Lewis Barnavelt series, The Name of the Game Was Murder, the Sammy Keyes series and The Westing Game. Hmmmm ... the Bernie Magruder Enthusiast ... maybe. Read more ...