Children's Mystery solving series read in 1970s. Several mysteries in each book. Clues & puzzles to solve, answers at the back. Only about 60 pages. Few black-and-white pictures.

[Janet]

I am an elementary library secretary. A teacher asked me to try and help her find a series she read in the mid to late 70s when she would have been about 5th grade.
It contained:
Several mysteries in each book
Clues and puzzles to solve
Answers at the back
Only about 60 pages long
Limited pictures that were in black and white only
Would probably been published in the 60s or 70s

[Michael]

Encyclopedia Brown

[inaword]

You Be the Jury

[Janet]

Thanks for the suggestions. Encyclopedia Brown books are too long. You Be the Jury is not old enough.

[inaword]

Might be in this list?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[RabbitMilitia]

Hi Janet! You may want to move this to the Unsolved folder since it looks like you are looking for a specific book series for your friend, not asking for suggestions for a type of book to read (ex: looking for good children's mysteries from the 1970s).

[Kris]

What RabbitMilitia said. I moved your request to the "Unsolved" folder because you're looking for one specific book series.

Who were the main characters? Were serious crimes or criminals involved? Location?

I added a few details to the header/ topic title. Feel free to edit it.

[bookel]

You Be The Jury series do have the page length guessed at.
Two Minute Mysteries by Sobol are longer.

[Julie]

Perhaps the "Magic Word Mysteries" by Carol Beach York? It has 6 short mysteries with the solutions at the end of the book. Black and white illustrations. My copy is from 1982.

[Bargle]

Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol have been around since the sixties. I don't remember off-hand if they have illustrations. If I can find my copy, I'll check.

[inaword]

Bargle wrote: "Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald J. Sobol have been around since the sixties. I don't remember off-hand if they have illustrations. If I can find my copy, I'll check."

My copy doesn't.

[bookel]

5 minute mysteries.
Scholastic, 1977.
Five-Minute Mysteries: Cases from the Files of Ed Noon
by Michael Avallone
5 Minute Mysteries: Cases From The Files Of Ed Noon, Private Eye

[Bargle]

inaword wrote: "My copy doesn't."

Thanks, inaword.

[Adele]

Mini-mysteries is the right length and publication date. There is an over-arcing storyline about a group of kids who call themselves The Platypus Club and in each chapter they solve a different "mystery". There are a few black and white pictures in the book. I would think it a likely candidate, but as far as I know it is not part of a series.

[bookel]

Searched short stories, mystery, Scholastic. Here is another series begun in the 1970s.

Solv A Crime by A. C. Gordon.
https://www.librarything.com/work/119...
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%...