List of Wishbone books
The Wishbone Mysteries
The Wishbone Mysteries is the third tie-in series to the Wishbone TV series. The books are based entirely around the adventures of Wishbone and his friends in Oakdale, and no longer include Wishbone imagining himself into a story.

List of Wishbone books

Section Title: The Wishbone Mysteries
Table Section Text: The Wishbone Mysteries is the third tie-in series to the Wishbone TV series. The books are based entirely around the adventures of Wishbone and his friends in Oakdale, and no longer include Wishbone imagining himself into a story.

Number	Title	Author	Inspired by	Original author	Read by	First printed

#1	The Treasure of Skeleton Reef	Brad Strickland and Thomas E. Fuller	Sherlock Holmes: His Greatest Cases (The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual)	Arthur Conan Doyle	Joe Talbot	November 1997

Plot: The old Skeleton Reef Lighthouse in St. George Bay has been donated to the Oakdale Historical Society, and the Talbots and Wanda head down to visit it.

#2	The Haunted Clubhouse	Caroline Leavitt	Ten Little Indians	Agatha Christie	Joe Talbot	November 1997

Plot: Joe wins an old clubhouse in a raffle, but events soon conspire to make him believe the building is haunted.

#3	Riddle Of The Wayward Books	Brad Strickland and Thomas E. Fuller	The Haunted Bookshop	Christopher Morley	Joe Talbot	December 1997

Plot: When Joe gets a summer job at Mr. Kilgore Gurney's used bookstore, he soon finds himself wrapped up in a mystery: who is breaking into the store at night, and why?

#4	Tale of the Missing Mascot	Alexander Steele	The Hollow Man	John Dickson Carr	January 1998

Plot: When the head is stolen from the mascot's costume for the Bulldogs, Oakdale's football team, it's up to Wishbone and his friends to solve the case.

#5	The Stolen Trophy	Michael Jan Friedman	Peril at End House	Agatha Christie	February 1998

Plot: An old basketball trophy disappears from the Talbot residence and Joe and Wishbone are on the case to solve the mystery.

#6	The Maltese Dog	Anne Capeci	The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett	March 1998

Plot: Someone is playing practical jokes on the basketball team, and when the evidence points to Joe, it's up to Wishbone to clear his name before the pranks affect the team.

#7	Drive-In of Doom	Brad Strickland and Thomas E. Fuller	The Roman Hat Mystery	Ellery Queen	Joe Talbot	April 1998

Plot: Wanda's friend Gladys Glendower is trying to fix up the old Moonlight Drive-in theater so it can be reopened for business.

#8	Key to the Golden Dog	Anne Capeci	The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins	Samantha Kepler	May 1998

Plot: An old model railway set, belonging to a man who's lived in Oakdale almost since it was founded and depicting the town as it was in the early 1900s, goes on display at Pepper Pete's for Oakdale History Month.

#9	Case of the On-Line Alien	Alexander Steele	The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells	June 1998

Plot: After witnessing an eerie glow in the sky and hearing a strange humming sound in the neighborhood, Wishbone is concerned that aliens might invade earth.

#10	The Disappearing Dinosaurs	Brad Strickland and Thomas E. Fuller	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Silver Blaze)	Arthur Conan Doyle	Samantha Kepler	July 1998

Plot: There's a new dinosaur exhibit at the Oakdale College Museum, including a brand new species that someone wants to make sure is never seen, leading to Joe and his friends setting out to find the culprit.

#11	Lights! Camera! Action Dog!	Kevin Ryan	Time and Again	Jack Finney	Joe Talbot	August 1998

Plot: Joe is hired for a part in a movie being filmed in Oakdale, but soon winds up searching for the mysterious person sabotaging production.

#12	Forgotten Heroes	Michael Anthony Steele	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (The Adventure of the Norwood Builder)	Arthur Conan Doyle	Joe Talbot	October 1998

Plot: When he buys an old collection of baseball cards, Joe discovers a few involving the Oakdale Oaks, the champions of Oakdale's Negro League.

#13	Case of the Unsolved Case	Alexander Steele	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Charles Dickens	Joe Talbot, Samantha Kepler, David Barnes	November 1998

Plot: Things are going missing in Oakdale: a ring that belonged to Joe's late father, a rawhide bone of Wishbone's, and most concerning, David Barnes.

#14	Disoriented Express	Brad Strickland and Thomas E. Fuller	Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie	Joe Talbot	December 1998

Plot: Oakdale College is holding a murder-mystery fundraiser on a train, and Joe and his friends are taking part. But in addition to the fake murder, they soon find themselves wrapped up in the case of a long-missing art treasure from World War II.

#15	Stage Invader	Vivian Sathre	Sleeping Murder	Agatha Christie	Samantha Kepler	February 1999

Plot: Sam is in charge of the Sequoyah Middle School eighth grade production of Grease, the first time that students have had full control of a play.

#16	The Sirian Conspiracy	Michael Jan Friedman and Paul Kupperberg	The Assassination Bureau	Jack London	Joe Talbot	June 1999

Plot: When a mysterious green glow appears over Oakdale for the second time in recent history, U.F.O. fever strikes.

#17	Case of the Impounded Hounds	Michael Anthony Steele	The Adventure of the Six Napoleons	Arthur Conan Doyle	August 1999

Plot: Wishbone and Joe investigate the disappearance of a dog, only to find that many other dogs have vanished in Oakdale.

#18	Phantom of the Video Store	Leticia Gantt	The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux	December 1999

Plot: Wishbone must discover a mysterious person who is inserting film footage of the people of Oakdale into the video rental movies at the store where Joe works.

#19	Case of the Cyber-Hacker	Anne Capeci	The Thirty-Nine Steps	John Buchan	David Barnes	April 2000

Plot: When David is framed for theft by a sneaky computer hacker, he and his friends must track down the real culprit, while Wishbone investigates the case of a dog he believes is being mistreated.

#20	Case of the Breaking Story	Alexander Steele	The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans	Arthur Conan Doyle	Joe Talbot	August 2000

Plot: When a flu epidemic strikes the staff of the Oakdale Chronicle, Joe and Wishbone are called into detective duty as well as serving as the replacement reporters.

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The Wishbone Mysteries novel Forgotten Heroes references the Adventure of the Norwood Builder.

final_sentence: The Wishbone Mysteries novel Forgotten Heroes references the Adventure of the Norwood Builder.