Anthony Horowitz
21) Skeleton Key
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Author
Series
A Hawthorne and Horowitz mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound."--
24) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
25) Necropolis
Author
Series
Publisher
Levithan/Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
26) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
27) Nightrise
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.
28) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
29) Scorpia
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006, ©2002
Language
English
Description
Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of Sherlockian detection that could tear apart the very fabric of society. The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon.
32) Scorpia rising
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Alex Rider thwarted the plans of the criminal organization Nightshade, he knew he'd made a new, incredibly evil enemy. But he hadn't expected to get sucked back into the spy game so quickly--that is, until the Nightshade masterminds kidnap his best friend and force Alex to do their bidding if he wants to see his pal alive again."--
34) Never say die
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 11
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
"Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force". --Container.
"Broken souls: October 1944. At a psychiatric clinic treating troubled soldiers, the investigation of a doctor's murder turns up no shortage of suspects among the patients and staff". -- Container.
"All clear: May 1945. As all of Britain awaits the formal announcement of the war's end...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
Publisher
Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.