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265-The Great Hedge of India

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264-Jack Renton and the Saltwater People

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263-Memories of Proust

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262-A Modern-Day Thoreau

105

261-The Murder of Lord William Russell

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260-The Rugged Road

107

259-The Astor Place Riot

108

258-The First Great Train Robbery

109

257-The Sledge Patrol

110

256-Lasseter's Reef

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255-Death on the Ice

112

254-The Porthole Murder

113

253-The Dame of Sark

114

252-The Wild Boy of Aveyron

115

251-Joseph Palmer's Beard

116

250-The General Slocum

117

249-The Robbers Cave Experiment

118

248-Smoky the War Dog

119

247-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

120

246-Gene Tierney's Secret Heartbreak

121

245-Jeanne Baret

122

244-The Women's Protest

123

243-The Peshtigo Fire

124

242-The Cardiff Giant

125

241-A Case of Scientific Self-Deception

126

240-The Shark Papers

127

239-The Man-Eaters of Tsavo

128

238-The Plight of Mary Ellen Wilson

129

237-The Baseball Spy

130

236-The Last Lap

131

235-Leon Festinger and the Alien Apocalypse

132

234-The Dig Tree

133

233-Flight to Freedom

134

232-The Indomitable Spirit of Douglas Bader

135

231-The Halifax Explosion

136

230-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

137

229-The Stone of Destiny

138

228-The Children's Champion

139

227-The Christmas Tree Ship

140

226-The Great Match Race

141

225-The Great Stork Derby

142

224-Lady Death

143

223-The Prince of Forgers

144

222-The Year Without a Summer

145

221-The Mystery Man of Essex County

146

220-The Old Hero of Gettysburg

147

219-The Greenbrier Ghost

148

218-Lost in the Amazon

149

217-The Bone Wars

150

216-The Tromelin Island Castaways

151

215-The Lieutenant Nun

152

214-The Poison Squad

153

213-Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery

154

212-The Lost Treasure of Cocos Island

155

211-Cast Away on an Ice Floe

156

210-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

157

209-Lost Off Newfoundland

158

208-Giving Birth to Rabbits

159

207-The Bluebelle's Last Voyage

160

206-The Sky and the Sea

161

205-The White Mouse

162

204-Mary Anning's Fossils

163

203-Notes and Queries

164

202-The Rosenhan Experiment

165

201-The Gardner Heist

166

200-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

167

199-The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering

168

198-The Man Who Wouldn't Die

169

197-Alone Across the Outback

170

196-The Long Way Home

171

195-A Case of Musical Plagiarism

172

194-The Double Life of Clarence King

173

193-The Collyer Brothers

174

192-The Winchester Diver

175

191-The Longest Flight

176

190-Mary Patten and the Neptune's Car

177

189-The "Wild White Man"

178

188-The Bat Bomb

179

187-A Human Being in the Bronx Zoo

180

186-The Children's Blizzard

181

185-The Man From Formosa

182

184-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

183

183-An Everest Mystery

184

182-The Compulsive Wanderer

185

181-Operation Gunnerside

186

180-An Academic Impostor

187

179-Two Vanished Young Writers

188

178-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

189

177-Averting a Catastrophe in Manhattan

190

176-The Bear That Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh

191

175-The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island

192

174-Cracking the Nazi Code

193

173-The Worst Journey in the World

194

172-An American in Feudal Japan

195

171-The Emperor of the United States

196

170-The Mechanical Turk

197

169-John Harrison and the Problem of Longitude

198

168-The Destruction of the Doves Type

199

167-A Manhattan Murder Mystery

200

166-A Dangerous Voyage