Stories

A reluctant reader is usually a child who has not found the right book yet, not one who cannot read. Why mystery hooks them, and what to look for in a book that flips the switch.

A rainy day is the perfect time to become a detective. Fifteen indoor detective activities for kids, from secret codes and fingerprint hunts to running a full mystery mission.

A mystery mission at home is a case to solve, clues to find, suspects to question, and a satisfying answer at the end. Here is exactly how to run one.

South Africa has some of the most genuinely puzzling unsolved mysteries anywhere — real historical gaps that historians still argue about today. Here are five of them.