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Scooby-Doo Mysteries Challenge
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7. The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face
8. Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro!
9. Make a Beeline Away from That Feline
10. The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw
11. The Diabolical Disc Demon
12. Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper
13. A Menace in Venice
14. Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear
15. The Warlock of Wimbledon
16. The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake
Season 1, Episode 5:
Decoy for a Dognapper
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5. Decoy for a Dognapper
When Mystery Inc. hear about a series of dognappings, they investigate. But when Scooby is dognapped, mistaken for another dog, the gang track him to a secret hideout in the desert where they face a witch doctor and a ghostly Indian on horseback.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character has his/her own business
2. a book that is part of a series
3. a book where a kidnapping occurs
4. a book where a doctor is a significant part of the story
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, Episode 5: Decoy for a DognapperAuthor: Kelley Armstrong
Book: Watcher in the Woods
Date Read: 5/1/2020
Task: A book that is part of a series.
How it Fits: This is number 4 in the Rockton series.
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 1: What a Night for a Knight
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1. What a Night for a Knight
When Scooby-Doo and Shaggy find an abandoned pick-up truck with a knight's armour in the front seat, the gang deliver it to the museum in place of the missing professor. However, this Black Knight is said to come alive every full moon. As the gang investigate the knight, they realize that it is a full moon, and the knight has come alive...!
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a vehicle on the cover
2. a historical book
3. a book with a moon on the cover
4. a book with an author whose last name starts with 'B', 'L', 'A', 'C", or 'K'
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, Episode 1: What a Night for a KnightAuthor: William Landay
Book: Defending Jacob
Date Read: 5/9/2020
Task: book with an author whose last name starts with 'B', 'L', 'A', 'C", or 'K'
How it Fits: Author's last name is Landay
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 2: A Clue for Scooby-Doo
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2. A Clue for Scooby Doo
At Rocky Point Beach, the gang encounter the ghost of an old sea diver. A sailor claims it to be the ghost of Captain Cutler, who, according to legend, died at sea many years ago when his boat got wrecked and he is getting his revenge.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set by the sea or ocean
2. a book where the main character spends time on a boat
3. a ghost story
4. a book where someone gets revenge
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, Episode 2: A Clue for Scooby DooAuthor: Joshilyn Jackson
Book: Never Have I Ever
Date Read: 5/18/2020
Task: A book where the main character spends time on a boat
How it Fits: The main character spends time on a boat while scuba diving.
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 3: Hassle in the Castle
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3. Hassle in the Castle
After getting lost in the fog, the gang arrive on Haunted Isle, where they meet an unearthly ghost haunting an old, abandoned castle.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets lost
2. a book set on an island
3. a book not set on Earth
4. a book someone else did not finish (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, Episode 3: Hassle in the CastleAuthor: Nora Roberts
Book: Hideaway
Date Read: 6/28/2020
Task: Book where the main character gets lost
How it Fits: At the beginning, the main character, Caitlyn, is kidnapped. She escapes but gets lost in the woods/forest area trying to find her way home.
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 4 - Mine Your Own Business
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4. Mine Your Own Business
When the gang get lost in the desert, and end up in Gold City, a spooky ghost town, they check into a deserted inn. The owner explains that everybody has been scared off by the Miner Forty-Niner. They wind up in another mystery involving an abandoned gold mine and a ghostly, moaning miner.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in a desert
2. a book where the main character spends the night at a hotel, motel or inn
3. a book with a spooky cover
4. a book where the main character goes underground (in a cave, the subway, a basement, etc.)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, Episode 4 - Mine Your Own Business
Author: Tarryn Fisher
Book: The Wives
Date Read: 7/15/2020
Task: Read a book where the main character spends the night at a hotel, motel or inn.
How it Fits: Thursday escapes from her husband and spends the night in a hotel/motel.
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 6 - What the Hex Going On?
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6. What the Hex Going On?
Mystery Inc. is headed to their friend Sharon Wetherby's estate. When they arrive, Sharon's Uncle Stuart disappears, and when they find him, he says he was beckoned by the voice of the Ghost of Elias Kingston from the Kingston Mansion. The gang find themselves wrapped up in the tangle of the spooky ghoul of Elias Kingston who wants the family treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book about friends
2. a book whose title starts with 'U', 'N', 'C', "L', or 'E' (ignoring 'a', 'an', 'the')
3. listen to an audio book
4. a book that you consider to be a treasure
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, Episode 6 - What the Hex Going On?
Task: Read a book about friends.
Author: Elizabeth Kay
Book: Seven Lies
Date Read: 7/19/2020
How it Fits: Jane and Marnie have been best friends since they were eleven - eighteen years.
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 7 - Never Ape an Ape Man
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7. Never Ape an Ape Man
The gang take jobs as extras on the set of Daphne's uncle, John Maxwell's, movie set of The Ape Man of Forbidden Mountain. But, a real apeman has been sabotaging the movie and Mystery Inc. need to catch this ape before he causes the movie to end permanently.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets a job
2. a book that has been made into a movie
3. a book that has been tagged 'Realistic Fiction'
4. a book that is the last of its series
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, Episode 7 - Never Ape an Ape Man
Author: Camilla Läckberg
Book: The Golden Cage
Date Read: 7/29/2020
Task: The main character gets a job
How it Fits: Faye, the MC, gets a job as a dog-walker
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, episode 8 - Foul Play in Funland
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8. Foul Play in Funland
The gang anticipate the opening of a theme park while clam collecting on a nearby beach. But when the theme park's lights come on and the rides start running, when the park is supposed to be closed, they try to find out who is doing it, and find the shenanigans are being caused by a strange man who walks like a torpedo.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book that is the first of a series
2. a book set where the main character goes to a beach
3. a book with an unusual word in the title
4. a book by a male author
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, episode 8 - Foul Play in Funland
Book: The Silent Patient
Author: Alex Michaelides
Date Read: 7/31/2020
Task: Read a book by a male author
How it Fits: Alex Michealides is a male author
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, episode 9 - The Backstage Rage
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9. The Backstage Rage
The gang investigate an abandoned theater where they face a spooky phantom
and his puppets, all connected to a counterfeiting operation!
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets left behind
2. a book where the main character goes to a theater
3. a book where a face is the focus of the cover
4. a book whose title has double letters in its title (puppet)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, episode 9 - The Backstage Rage
Book: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Author: Janet Mock
Date Read: 8/2/20
Task: Read a book whose title has double letters in its title (puppet)
How it Fits: "ss" in realness and "oo" in womanhood
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, episode 10 - Bedlam in the Big Top
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10. Bedlam in the Big Top
The gang stumble upon a circus that is supposedly haunted by a ghost clown
that starts to hypnotize some of them with a gold coin.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'stumble' in its text
2. a book with a circus animal in the story
3. a book that is humorous
4. a book that you purchased
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, Episode 10 - Bedlam in the Big Top
Book: The Mirror Box
Author: Jane Swift
Date Read: 9/1/2020
Task: Read a book with 'stumble' in its text.
How it Fits: "The man used this moment of distraction to yank the rope free of the hands of the single woman who still held him, and he took to his feet and started to stumble down the hill." - pg 63
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, episode 11 - A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
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11. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
While on their way to Franken Castle, the gang stop to get their fortunes told by a gypsy. She warns them "they will meet their doom" if they go to the castle. The gang goes to the castle anyway, where they are confronted by Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'castle' in the text of the book
2. a book where something bad happens to the MC
3. a book with a significant character who is nobility
4. a book that is considered a classic
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, episode 11 - A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
Book: The First to Lie
Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan
Date Read: 9/23/2020
Task: Read a book where something bad happens to the MC
How it Fits: loses a baby/miscarriage
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, episode 12 - Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
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12. Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
While visiting a museum, the gang learn about the legend of Ankha, a 3000-year-old mummy. Legend had it that the mummy will come back alive and turn people to stone if he is removed from his tomb. Shaggy later finds a coin inside his pocket from the exhibit, and when the gang go back to return it, they find the mummy has come to life and turned the professor to stone, and now he wants Shaggy's coin.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a historical book
2. a book that you purchased
3. a book with a teacher as a character
4. a book whose author's first name starts with 'C', 'O', 'I', 'N'
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Season 1, episode 12 - Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
Book: Unraveled: Corwin & Belle's story
Author: Christa Wick
Date Read: 9/29/2020
Task: Read a book whose author's first name starts with 'C', 'O', 'I', 'N'
How it Fits: Author's name - Christa
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, episode 13 - Which Witch Is Which?
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13. Which Witch Is Which?
While lost in a swamp, the gang comes across a zombie who spooks them. In the nearby town of Swamp's End, they learn that a witch nearby brought the zombie to life, and the gang investigates.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC gets lost
2. a book cover that you consider spooky
3. a book set near where you live
4. a book with 'investigate' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
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Season 1, episode 13 - Which Witch Is Which?
Book: Overdose
Author: Uvi Poznansky
Date Read: 10/29/2020
Task: Read a book cover that you consider spooky
How it Fits: Spooky cover - reminds me of an old B movie poster
Next episode choice: Season 1, Episode 14 - Spooky Space Kook
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14. Spooky Space Kook
The Mystery Machine runs out of gas in front of a farmhouse, next to an
abandoned airfield, which is haunted by a UFO and its ghostly alien driver.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC has difficulty with a vehicle
2. a book set on a farm
3. a book where the MC flies on a airplane
4. a science fiction book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
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Season 1, Episode 14 - Spooky Space Kook
Book: Take Us To Your Trump
Author: Andrew Stanek
Date Read: 12/30/20
Task: Read a science fiction book
How it Fits: Officials try to prevent aliens who have landed in Washington, D.C. from speaking with the president.
Next episode choice: Season 1, Episode 15 - Go Away Ghost Ship
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15. Go Away Ghost Ship
The newspaper reports that local shipping company owner C.L. Magnus's company is going out of business, because the ghost of the pirate Redbeard is haunting the harbor and looting Magnus' ships. After reading the story and consulting Magnus, the gang sets out to see if they can stop the ghost.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with an author whose name starts with 'C' or 'L'
2. a book with a red-haired character in it
3. a book with 'harbor' in the text of the book
4. a book where the MC reads a book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostSeason 1, Episode 15 - Go Away Ghost Ship
Book: The Wife Upstairs
Author: Rachel Hawkins
Date Read: 2/17/21
Task: Read a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Next episode choice: Season 1, Episode 16 - A Night of Fright Is No Delight
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16. A Night of Fright Is No Delight
Scooby-Doo is named in the will of Colonel Beauregard Sanders, an eccentric millionaire whose life he saved several years earlier. The only way to claim the inheritance is for Scooby, and the other four heirs to stay the night in the Colonel's mansion - which they quickly learn is haunted by two phantom shadows.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC inherits something
2. a book with a wealthy significant character
3. a book with a military person in the story
4. a book with a shadow on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostSeason 1, Episode 16 - A Night of Fright Is No Delight
Book: Three Single Wives
Author: Gina LaManna
Date Read: 3/7/21
Task: RAB with a wealthy significant character
How it Fits: Eliza Tate, publicist
Next episode choice: Season 1, Episode 17 - That's Snow Ghost
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17. That's Snow Ghost
While on a skiing vacation at Wolf's End Lodge, the kids are scared by the ghost of a Yeti, called the Snow Ghost, who is believed to turn anyone he captures into ghosts. In search of clues, the gang eventually meet a Tibetan hermit who thinks he is responsible for summoning the monster.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the wintertime
2. a book where a mythical creature is mentioned
3. a book where the MC lives alone
4. a book with a MC that is responsible
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostSeason 1, Episode 17 - That's Snow Ghost
Book: The Hunting Party
Author: Lucy Foley
Date Read: 3/31/21
Task: RAB set during the wintertime
How it Fits: set during December-January
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 1 - Nowhere to Hyde
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1. Nowhere to Hyde
On their way home from the Malt Shop, the gang encounters the Ghost of Mr. Hyde in the back of the Mystery Machine, who runs through a marsh and sneaks into a spooky house. The house turns out to be the home of Dr. Jekyll (great-grandson of the novel character), who fears he may be transforming into the ghost. The gang begin searching the house for clues, pegging Helga, Jekyll's housekeeper, as a likely suspect, but they are pursued at every turn by the ghost.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with two names in the title
2. a book with a domicile on the cover
3. a book with a servant in the story
4. a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
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Season 2, Episode 1 - Nowhere to Hyde
Author: Lisa Unger
Book: Confessions on the 7:45
Date Read: 4/6/21
Task: RAB with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 2 - Mystery Mask Mix-Up
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2. Mystery Mask Mix-Up
After attending a Chinese New Year parade, the gang goes shopping in a curio shop where Daphne buys a golden mask. The gang then visits Mr. Fong, and they soon learn from him that the mask was stolen many centuries ago from the crypt of a Chinese warlord named Zen Tuo, and now his ghost and his two phantom henchmen want it back.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'parade' in the text of the book
2. a book where someone wears a mask
3. a book where something is stolen
4. a book with two people on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
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Season 2, Episode 2 - Mystery Mask Mix-Up
Author: Caroline Kepnes
Book: You
Date Read: 4/29/21
Task: RAB with two people on the cover.
How it Fits: Two people on the cover
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 3 - Jeepers, It's the Creeper
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3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper
While on their way to their high school's barn dance, the gang comes across a knocked-out bank guard and his ransacked car. After he mumbles to them some clues, they discover that the local banks have been robbed by a mysterious zombie-like phantom called the Creeper.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC attends school
2. a book where someone loses consciousness
3. a book where a money is exchanged
4. a book the MC has a nickname
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Post Season 2, Episode 3 - Jeepers, It's the Creeper
Author: Brandon Massey
Book: The Quiet Ones
Date Read: 5/16/2021
Task: a book where someone loses consciousness
How it Fits: MC loses consciousness after being injected with a sedative.
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 4 - Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright
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4. Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright
While out fishing, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo hook a two-million-year-old caveman frozen in a block of ice, which the gang learns was lost at sea during a violent storm. They take the caveman to the Oceanland aquarium, but when someone melts the ice block and the caveman goes on the rampage, the gang decides to stick around and investigate.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'fish' in the text of the book
2. a book a severe storm in the story
3. a book set by the ocean or sea
4. a book with the letters of 'ICE' in the title
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostEpisode 4 - Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright
Author: Annie Ward
Book: Beautiful Bad: A Novel
Date Read: 5/22/21
Task: RAB with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: Mystery on books main page
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 5 -Haunted House Hang-Up
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5. Haunted House Hang-Up
The Mystery Machine overheats in front of an old spooky mansion, and the gang goes to look for help, but finds out that the house is being haunted by the Headless Spectre, a terrifying phantom with no head. The mystery gets even stranger when they begin to hear knocking sounds and clues leading to a treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the summertime
2. a book where the MC goes looking for help
3. a book a headless person on the cover
4. a book where the MC meets a stranger
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostSeason 2, Episode 5 -Haunted House Hang-Up
Author: Kate A. Boorman
Book: What We Buried
Date Read: 5/28/21
Task: Read a book where the MC meets a stranger
How it Fits: MC meets a stranger named Frank
Next Episode Choice: season 2, episode 6 - A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
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6. A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Shaggy and Scooby's vacation in Hawaii is interrupted by a ghostly witch doctor, who warns the tourists and natives they are on the sacred grounds of the island god Mano Tiki Tia and to stay away from the cursed village. Later, the gang's guide John Simms goes missing, so it is up to the gang to search for him in the supposedly cursed village, where they eventually run into the witch doctor, and the giant statue of Mano Tiki Tia.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC goes on vacation
2. a book set on an island
3. a book with a character named John
4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostSeason 2, episode 6 - A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Author: Kimberly McCreight
Book: A Good Marriage
Date Read: 5/30/21
Task: RAB with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: 'Mystery' is on the book's main page
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, episode 7 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
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7. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
Out on a camping trip, the gang hears the sounds of a wolf, so they decide to follow wolf-like tracks to the open and empty grave of Silas Long, who was supposedly a werewolf. They follow his tracks further to an old abandoned sawmill filled with wool, empty barrels, and the werewolf ghost himself.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a mountain on the cover
2. a book with 'wolf' in the text of the book
3. a book where the MC goes to a graveyard
4. a book that someone else has abandoned (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was an animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. It was on Saturday mornings and it aired from September 13, 1969, until October 31, 1970.
The show centers on four teenagers (Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in the Mystery Machine, a blue and green van decorated with orange flowers, solving mysteries.
Challenge Begins: May 1, 2020
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Take a look at the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! episode list.
2. Choose your first mystery and post it into your thread.
3. The moderator will then post the related episode information and tasks.
4. Once you complete one of the tasks, post in your thread and in the Reporting thread the following:
Author:
Book:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:
Next Episode Choice:
Books must be 100 pages.
Re-reads and audio books are okay.
Page count for audio books will be determined the first paper version shown on Goodreads. From the book's page, select “all editions”, then select the first paper edition as your guide.