Books with title The Black Dog Mystery

Mystery of the Black Madonna follows the adventures of Sara, fictional granddaughter of the painter Henri Matisse, as she attempts to recover a statue hidden in a cave near Nice, France. It is a chapter book written for pre-teens based loosely on the life of the painter Henri Matisse and his fictional granddaughter Sara. Sara spends the summer with her grandfather in the French countryside. She is recruited by her grandfather’s Russian housekeeper to retrieve a mysterious statue of a Black Madonna hidden in an underground cave system beneath an ancient abandoned church. Her companions Ludmilla, the Russian housekeeper, blind Jacques, his seeing eye dog, Ben, and Nathan, an American artist help her along the way but in the end Sara must brave great danger by herself in order to meet the Black Madonna face to face and rescue her. The Tarot, a neighbor’s honey bees and her grandfathers painting lessons guide her on her quest. This book is a work of fiction inspired by my devotion to the Black Madonna and a fascination with, and love for, the life of and work of French painter, Henri Matisse.

There's trouble backstage!Peppermint Penny's clothing shop is having a back-to-school fashion show, and Nancy is one of the models. Everything is perfect -- until somebody cuts a hole in the show's star attraction, a black velvet coat from Paris.Meanwhile, Brenda Carlton is passing out copies of the Carlton News. Her new gossip column says that Nancy did the damage. Now Nancy and her friends have to turn a fashion disaster inside out and catch the real cut-up at the show!

The Hardys Travel To Kenya -- Just In Time To Catch A Killer Frank and Joe Hardy follow their father on a trip to Nairobi for an incredible vacation. Intrigue has a way of finding the Hardys, though, and in a short time they become involved in a dangerous case. Someone's hunting wild animals for prize skins and tusks, angering the area's animal rights activists. When Frank and Joe see some of the horrific work of the hunters while on safari, they become determined to help put an end to it. This criminal hunt is fierce. The Hardy boys find themselves getting closer to danger than ever before. And after a treacherous hunt for the culprit, imagine their surprise when the Hardys learn that they were never far from the true criminals behind the vicious acts in Kenya....

Nancy Wins A Holiday Party Raffle -- but Loses The Prize! Nancy and her Labrador puppy, Chocolate Chip, are enjoying the holiday party at the Dashing Dog salon. They even win the raffle prize -- a one-of-a-kind doggie collar with rhinestones shaped like bones. But then the collar vanishes! Now Nancy is digging up suspects. There's Petra, a girl from her school. She really, really wanted the collar for her dog, Prince Fabian. And what about Alice Cahill, who writes about pets for the local newspaper? She was crazy for the collar, too. Then there's Mrs. Vanderpool and her two yipping Yorkies -- the collar is just their style. To solve this case, Nancy has to be sure she's barking up the right tree!

Marcie Ducasse writes the “Weird Happenings” column for Roaming New England Magazine, which focuses on stories of the supernatural that occur in New England. She researches reported strange happenings and conveys them to her readers. It usually turns out that the events were performed by all too human perpetrators, although occasionally a supernatural element remains unexplained.In the case of the “Black Dog,” a small black dog suddenly appears out of nowhere and then disappears. According to the legend, whoever sees the dog three times, dies. When a Wall Street financier, who is about to come under indictment for embezzlement, sees the dog three times and then falls off a cliff, Marcie is quickly on the case. She soon finds that many of the man’s acquaintances are happy to see the victim dead, and it soon becomes obvious to Marcie that determining if he died due to human agency or the curse of the “Black Dog” will not be easy.

First in Melon & Stick mystery series. Two cousins try to discover what happened to the missing father of one (who was probably murdered, but without a corpse to verify the death), and the suddenly alive, though presumed dead, father of the other. What happened eighteen years ago that caused their mothers to hate each other with such passion? And who's been sending a black rose to commemorate a "betrayal as black as your heart." And what about the lights in the old abandoned mansion, returning after eighteen years? The answers are all discovered in The Mystery of the Black Rose.