This engaging series provides students with opportunities to sharpen their critical-thinking skills with short, original detective stories. Each reproducible story contains plenty of clues and information, along with comprehension activities and a puzzle to solve. Reading carefully and using deductive reasoning skills, students can work alone or in small groups to be comprehension detectives. A great way to engage students of all ability levels, from the reluctant reader to the student who always seems to need a new challenge! Includes teacher's notes, skills overview, and reproducible student pages with crime story and literal and evaluative questions requiring analysis and synthesis. Includes: Eliminating Suspects, Follow the Clues, The Big Burger Burgle, The Breakfast Break-in, Who Got the Job?, Snow Job, and 12 more mysteries.