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Take a (Spring) Break with a Mail Order Mystery
Read more →We all know spring break isn’t really a break. It is a break from some things: lunches, homework,early morning practices. But it’s sure as heck not a break from others: bickering, boredom, screen-begging. Those are not things you can ignore. Those are not things that will just go away. If you want a break this spring break you need a plan. You need to keep the kids occupied. Or even better, engaged. Or better yet, swept up in an extraordinary story in which your kid is the hero and the star. Mail Order Mysteries are story adventures that unfold through a series of...
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We Have Some Winners in Our Photo Contest!
Read more →The first-ever Mail Order Mystery photo contest has been so much fun; we have been delighted by the pics of these extraordinary little spies, detectives, pirates and heroes. But choosing the winner was no easy task. Thanks to you and the enthusiastic voting of your family and friends you’ve helped us narrow the winners down to ten photos. But how to choose from these ten? These photographs are all so ridiculously cute that in the end we realized we could not choose the grand prize winner based on cuteness alone. And so we selected this photograph of Detective Jo, hard...
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Vote Now! Help Us Pick a Winner in Our Photo Contest.
Read more →We are over the moon with the results of our first ever photo contest. You have got to check out these pics. And these are just a few of the entries! They are so unbearably cute, so seriously determined, so silly, so fun and so focused that we can hardly stand it. This is Mail Order Mystery history in the making, and we are so happy that you can be a part of it. There is no way we would ever be able to choose a winner on our own, which is why we are giving each of...
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Enter Our Photo Contest, Win Cool Prizes
Read more →Here at Mail Order Mystery HQ we love seeing photos of kids working away at their mysteries. Those looks of determination, wonder and joy are so rewarding to see. People send us so many amazing photos, or post them on social media, and we keep thinking, wouldn’t it be great to see a whole bunch of those fantastic photos, all at the same time, in the same place? Wouldn’t it be great to have a photo contest? So let’s have a photo contest! Send us pictures of your extraordinary little sleuths working on their Mail Order Mysteries. We want to see...
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Curious About Our New Detective Mystery?
Read more →Maybe you've seen our new detective mystery The Case of the Missing Bigfoot. And maybe you've wondered what it's like for young sleuths trying to crack the case. Well, we think this wonderful review from This West Coast Mommy captures the experience really well. This West Coast Mommy and her kids have also done Treasure Hunt! (our pirate mystery) and Enchanted Slumber (our fairy tale mystery) and loved them both. So they have a great sense of how our new detective mystery compares. (They love it!) And we absolutely love all the photos of the young sleuths as they analyze “crime scene” photos, fingerprint reports, interview transcripts, ciphers, clues and map...
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Order Now: 4 Ship Dates Left in December
Read more →What the heck?! It’s December already. If you are planning to order a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift there is still time. We ship every Thursday so that means there are four Thursdays left in December to pick from.December 6 or 13 is your best bet if you want your mystery to start arriving before Christmas. If you choose December 20 or December 27 as your ship date your mystery should start arriving shortly after Christmas. You can download a printable gift note to give on Christmas morning.And of course if you’re interested you can buy a gift tie-in for...