The Curse of the Ruby Necklace was the one I liked the most, although now when I read it (and deface it), it seems sloppy. The twins get bit parts in a movie, and naturally there's an unsolved mystery for them to get involved in on the side. Danger! Intrigue! All at age 12! The Movie People say they couldn't find Hilda (the suspected murderer, back in 1944) and assume she died. Elizabeth (the more logical, smarter twin) points out that if Hilda was a girl in the 40s (and it's now the 90s), Hilda wouldn't be that old and is probably still alive. Nope, The Movie People say, we searched with the police and couldn't find her. BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A GHOST TO TELL US THAT SHE GOT MARRIED. Yep, the movie people didn't even consider that Hilda could have taken her husband's name... LIKE MOST PEOPLE DO. Movie People are stoopid. So when the twins need to find Hilda to solve the mystery, they just look up marriages in old newspapers (on microfilm, in the library! Movie People can't be bothered with such heavy research). HILDA DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO SKIP TOWN BEFORE GETTING MARRIED. Which is explained in the book as "returning to the scene of the crime." And yet no one bothered her for years and years, she was able to lay low until the Super Twins (and their tagalong cousin Robin) needed to find her to figure out why the necklace is haunting them with nightmares (guess you can't get Lucid with a cursed necklace under your pillow). They easily track her down and learn that (shocker), she didn't kill Lillian. Derp.
Jessica looks stoned on the cover.* Also, when I was eleven I wished the cover illustrator had made their outfits more "even". Like Jessica is too bare and Liz is too covered up... but that's clearly a representative of their personalities, HA... Also, Liz is wearing her watch too high on her wrist. It's sitting on her carpal.
ETA: Elizabeth is allowed to lie when she's being controlled by a supernatural object (the cursed necklace.) She tells her science teacher that she found an old bottle and uses chemicals unsupervised (Don't try this at home kids!!) to clean up said not-bottle-but-a-haunted-piece-of-jewelry (so it can sparkle at her ominously and control her more). Jessica, on the other hand, will lie without thinking twice because she's a crafty bitch. The necklace, of course, doesn't care who does its bidding as long as the derpy mystery gets solved. (This is important to note when reading my stories. Elizabeth can lie about supernatural events, even though she usually feels horrible for lying, unlike Jessica who has no soul.)
*OK full disclosure, I have never been stoned. I have lead a somewhat sheltered life due to various medical conditions and in high school/ college when most people were experimenting with drugs, I was worrying about when my next brain surgery would be. Although, in high school someone said I looked stoned, so there's that. (I wasn't stoned, I was depressed and had chronic pain.)
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