Writer: Mildred Wirt (1935). Revised By: Grace Grote (1972). Aunt Eloise invites Nancy to New York City to meet her detective friend for a mystery case in Illinois. Detective Boyce tells the story of a wounded French missionary in 1680. The French missionary was nursed and regained consciousness only long…
Writer: Mildred Wirt (1934). Revised By: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams & Grace Grote (1965). Mr Drew has a client Lawrence Baker who owns a summer cottage at Misty Lake. Before Mr Baker leaves to Europe, he rented his place for two weeks to a young woman called Cecily Curtis. The caretaker…
Writer: Walter Karig (1933). Revised By: Patricia Doll (1966). When Nancy is on the flagstone path of her garden, a wounded bird plummeted down and landed among the flowers. The homing pigeon has a thin piece of paper on its leg. And the message indicates trouble will occur and after…
Writer: Walter Karig (1933). Revised By: Patricia Doll (1968). Nancy and her friends Bess and George are heading for a secluded inn called The Sign of the Twisted Candles. There are rumours from their neighbours that an old man was virtually a prisoner in the tower of the old-fashioned mansion.…
Writer: Walter Karig (1932). Revised By: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1968). Nancy receives a letter from England which is intended for an heiress, also named Nancy Drew. Later, Nancy finds out that a guy named Edgar Nixon has stolen the letters and going to get married to the heiress soon. Nancy…
Writer: Midred Wirt (1932). Revised By: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1962). Nancy and her best friends, George and Bess, are returning from a country carnival when they see the burning of a country mansion. They rush to the rescue, but Nancy finds an anonymous diary when seeking shelter from the flying…
Frank recalls the memories of the summer in 1961 when he was a thirteen-year-old boy in a small town of New Bremen, Minnesota. The story is narrated by Frank forty years after, looking back at that particular summer which visited by frequent deaths in various forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.…
There was a small spark of interest at the beginning of the story. As I went through the chapters, I'm looking for something different than the previous chapter that but it's a disappointment. This story keeps telling or rambling about these three women's lives with their husbands and children. There…
Writer: Midred Wirt (1931). Revised By: Lynn Ealer (1961). One-Sentence Summary: A bottle of perfume which reluctantly being sold to Bess leads to the adventure of capturing a counterfeit syndicate. When waiting for the train to return to River Heights, Nancy is contemplating their encounter with the mysterious woman in…
Writer: Midred Wirt (1931). Revised By: Grace Grote (1965). Nancy is going to spend her vacation at the Shadow Ranch with her cousins, George and Bess. When she reaches the airport, they tell her that their aunt and uncle, Edward and Elizabeth Rawley thinks that it's not safe for them…