Naitabal Mystery Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Danger, Keep Out! | 1993 | Buy |
| Wild Woods, Dark Secret | 1996 | Buy |
| Wake Up, It’s Midnight! | 2001 | Buy |
| Behind Locked Doors | 2001 | Buy |
| Skeletons in the Attic | 2001 | Buy |
| Sam and the U.F.O. | 2001 | Buy |
| Ghost Island | 2001 | Buy |
| Dead Man’s Chest | 2001 | Buy |
| Wild Woods | 2001 | Buy |
| The Secret of Stranglehold Hall | 2005 | Buy |
David Schutte writes children’s mystery and adventure fiction through his Naitabal Mystery series. The ten books, published between 1993 and 2005, offer young readers a mix of spooky settings — haunted woods, ghost islands, locked rooms — and puzzle-solving adventure. Titles like Skeletons in the Attic and The Secret of Stranglehold Hall signal the series’ appetite for atmospheric, slightly creepy mysteries appropriate for middle-grade readers.
The series maintained a steady output, with six books published in 2001 alone. Each story gives its young protagonists a new mystery to solve, following the adventure-mystery formula that has long been popular with young readers drawn to books about hidden dangers and secret discoveries.