Murdle Jr.
Stop what you’re doing right now: There are mysteries to solve! Grab a pencil (and your wits) and step inside the puzzle-solving craze that’s become an international sensation. From the ingenious mind of G.T. Karber comes a series of forty mini mysteries led by four junior detectives: tough-as-nails Jake, computer-whiz Olivia, quick-thinking Julius, and the un-fur-gettable Buster McPaws. Each aspiring detective investigates their own special case—with enough baffling suspects to confuse even the wisest sleuth.
It’s up to YOU to crack each whodunit, find the culprits, and lead this ragtag team to their grandest case of all! Clues, codes, and a helpful mystery-solving grid provide hours of immersive fun.
Do you have what it takes to become a Murdle Jr. detective?
While Jake is racing to solve the case of her missing teacher at school, her detective friends are light-years away, solving their own gravity-defying mysteries. On a spacecraft far from Earth, Julius is investigating an astrological anomaly, Buster McPaws is searching a moon base for a spy, and Olivia is uncovering a secret hidden in a virtual reality game. It’s absolute chaos, but chaos is the perfect backdrop for mystery—and you’re invited to investigate along with them!
Jump on the Murdle craze and complete a series of intergalactic mini-mysteries in this can’t-miss puzzle book packed with illustrations, clues, codes, and helpful mystery-solving logic grids.
The first Murdle Jr. novelization Sleuths on the Loose is a companion for this puzzle book, with some Easter egg puzzles to solve between the pairing of books, for readers with the keenest of eyes!
It’s a cloudy day on the Sacred Kidney playground, but Jake likes it that way—dark and uncertain. For a junior detective like Jake, standing up to bad guys is a piece of cake. After all, she’s the only detective at Sacred Kidney Elementary with a hard-earned badge to her name. But just as Jake and her sidekick Sterling prepare to face off against the biggest bully in school, there’s a scream from inside the library.
The kids are sure they heard Miss Saffron cry out, but when they arrive at the scene of the crime, the library is how it’s always been: filled with books, but no Miss Saffron to be found! None of the adults still there after school are talking, but Jake, Sterling, and Brick the bully are determined to find out what happened. This unlikely trio pinky promises to solve…the crime at Sacred Kidney!
The second Murdle Jr. puzzle book Ready, Set, Solve! is a companion for this novel, with some Easter egg puzzles to solve between the pairing of books, for readers with the keenest of eyes!
Downloadable Junior Detective Kit
Downloadable Detective Club Credentials
Downloadable Deduction Grids
Downloadable Reader’s Theater
