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Penny Warner

(b.1947)

Penny Warner is an award-winning author of over fifty books ranging in subjects from cooking to parenting guides to children's activities. In addition, Warner is the author of the Connor Westphal mystery series, about a deaf reporter in the California Gold Country. The first book in the series, Dead Body Language, won the Macavity Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Her children's mystery, Mystery Of The Haunted Caves: A Troop 13 Mystery, won the Agatha Award for Best Children/Young Adult Fiction in 2001, along with an Anthony Award for Best Juvenile Mystery.

Genres: Mystery, Children's Fiction

Series

Connor Westphal
   1. Dead Body Language (1997)
   2. Sign of Foul Play (1997)
   3. Right to Remain Silent (1998)
   4. A Quiet Undertaking (2000)
   5. Blind Side (2001)
   6. Silence Is Golden (2003)
   7. Dead Man's Hand (2007)

Party-Planning Mystery
   1. How to Host a Killer Party (2010)
   2. How to Crash a Killer Bash (2010)
   3. How to Survive a Killer Seance (2011)
   4. How to Party with a Killer Vampire (2011)
   5. How to Dine on Killer Wine (2012)

Code Busters Club
   1. The Secret of the Skeleton Key (2011)
   2. The Haunted Lighthouse (2012)
   3. Secret Treasure of Pirate Cove (2013)
     aka The Mystery of the Pirate's Treasure
   4. The Mummy's Curse (2014)
   5. The Hunt for the Missing Spy (2015)
   6. The Secret of the Puzzle Box (2016)
   Top Secret Code Busters Club Handbook (2015)

Troop 13 Mystery
1. The Mystery of the Haunted Caves (2011)
2. The Mystery of the Missing Mustangs (2011)

Non fiction

   Official Nancy Drew Handbook (2007)
   Rock-a-bye Baby (2008)
   Ladies Night (2008)
   Baby Play and Learn (2010)
   Learn to Sign the Fun Way! (2010)
   Baby's Favorite Rhymes to Sign (2010)
   Toilet Training without Tears and Trauma (2012) (with Paula MD Kelly)
   Storybook Parties (2016)

Awards

	Agatha Award Best Children/Young Adult Fiction winner (2001) : The Mystery of the Haunted Caves
	Agatha Award Best Children/Young Adult Fiction winner (2012) : The Haunted Lighthouse
	Agatha Award Best Children/Young Adult Fiction winner (2014) : The Mummy's Curse
	Agatha Award Best Children/Young Adult Fiction winner (2016) : The Secret of the Puzzle Box

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