In an effor to find buried treasure and help her friend Ellen, a live-in piano teacher (really), Nancy repeatedly puts a child's wellbeing in danger. Everyone else is pretty cool with this.

( 'Please don't get into a fight with Snorky,' Nancy pleaded. )

In the second part of this book, Nancy uncovers a commie conspiracy to jeopardize America's space program! Every foreign person she's met over the course of the story is secretly involved, of course.

( The boys were intrigued by the unusual trees on the garden, particularly the sausage tree. )

One of the main plotlines in this book is known as "the mystery of the explosive oranges". Yeah.

( 'Bess, you know as well as I do that the thrust of a hundred-thousand-pound rocket couldn't force Nancy to give up this case.' )

I'm not going to claim that my updates should be coming more quickly soon, because saying that apparently jinxes things. Woe.

( 'Next to football, dancing is my favorite pastime.' )

In case you were wondering, this edition isn't any more interesting than the revised version.

( 'I'll be aided by the gathering darkness and the roar of the ocean,' she thought. )

Because in the old version, we actually find out where Togo comes from, instead of having him show up to be fondled and then disappear without a trace.

( 'I should have thought he would have preferred to disown his daughter.' )

I still have no idea what the point of this one was. There were too many unrelated little mysteries and random bad guys and boring cat shows for it to really hold my interest. Plus, Gus Woonton didn't turn out to be as deliciously crazy as I had been hoping. What a let-down.

( Anyone entering by this means would be surprised with a hard football tackle. Secretly Ned hoped he would have the chance. )

This book... I'm not really sure what this book is about, to be honest. It involves a random cat thief, antagonistic neighbors who May or May Not Be Hiding Something, and a mentally unbalanced criminal who breaks into houses for the sole purpose of sending Morse Code messages to the inhabitants. Oh, and a cat show that serves no real purpose to the ( Read more... )

Our intrepid detective works to take down an international jewel thief and uncover the mystery behind a haunted bridge (one possible explanation: teenagers getting it on), all while single-handedly (literally) winning a golf tournament against world-renowned players.
BONUS: Bess and George give Nancy a very thorough backrub after she sprains her ( Read more... )

This is officially the most boring Nancy Drew book ever.

"To each question Nancy would reply with a smile, 'We caught a thief!'
The reactions were varied. Most of the women said, 'Weren't you terrified?'
Nancy: "Not me, but why do you think Ned's pants are wet?"
The men would become angry and wish they had had a chance to overpower the burglar.
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