Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to mystery, classics lovers.
Your Rating:. Of course there is still poverty and injustice in this world, but they were conspicuously absent from the rewritten version of The Secret of the Old Clock So I would say the rewritten version are watered down, and will not capture the reader nearly as well as the original books. If you're wondering whether you have the original or rewritten version: all the yellow hardcovers are rewritten versions, as all all other version published after They have now published the first 20 Nancy Drew books, and I hope they continue publishing them, because I intend to collect them all.
Here's a list I made at Amazon. This is a great idea! I'll check which Nancy Drew books I have, maybe I too can send something! KarenBC 15 yrs ago. I've just begun a new project, and could sure use the help of BookCrossers to make it a reality. They share the same postal address. I've started a page on my website to keep track of which books we've sent, so that we don't duplicate - although 2 copies of each book would be fine, then both libaries can have their own set.
If you do find one or more! I'm only sending the hardcover versions of the books, as they are so much sturdier and will stand up to many-many readers handling them.
Doesn't matter if they are the shinier newer looking copies of the books, or the older ones that had a more matte finish. This sounds like a great project. I don't have any in hardcover, but if I run aross any I'll be in touch.
Could you warn people not to send early editions, which were pretty darn racist ever notice how the villains were always "swarthy"? I understand more modern editions have been cleaned up. Um, the contact person for the Friends of African Village Libraries. I ran this project by the Friends group before going ahead with it.
Did you mean they reworked some of the first books in the series mojosmom - or that the later books were written in a different style? Thank you for the info candydarling! I learned a lot about the series this morning! I understand that you liked the originals better, CandyDarling, but That's something I keep in mind with all of my overseas projects. And along the same line, if I'm sending to an orphanage I try not to send books that show the "perfect family".
It doesn't take much to keep an eye out for non appropriate books. Re: I understand that you liked the originals better, CandyDarling, but You're right, and I would definitely not send any original versions of the books to Ghana.
But I wanted to let people know of them, because I personally like them so much. I think even the rewritten versions are better than some of the newest Nancy Drew books If you're interested, follow the link to bookcloseouts in the "buying books? Todays find -. Nancy Drew 15 - The Haunted Showboat PB I think it's a great idea to collect a specific series like this, I'm not actively looking for them but if I'm in a charity shop which I am quite a lot they jump out at me. Plus there's a challenge in trying to collect them.
That's terrific pumpkin-head - I'll be updating the list soon. I'm out of town at a convention for the week, so checking into the BookCrossing site in the evenings. If I can I'll update the list before I get home. That's a good price - but out of my price range unfortunately :. Challenge to Paperbackswap. This is the classic old well, OK, from my childhood ;- version in hardback - so I challenge you guys to use those points for a good cause and help KarenBC send lots of books!
I'll be ordering more Nancy Drews that way once I get more points Thank you Scout-Finch! I am actually trying to collect all the Nancy Drew ones for my girls right now, but. Good luck! Superstition helps her adversary in his attempt to get her off his trail, but Nancy does not give up. Persistently she uncovers one clue after another. Nancy's intelligence and sleuthing ability finally lead to the fascinating solution of this puzzling case.
She asks Bess and George to join her on a search in Charlottesville, Virginia. Before the three friends leave River Heights, their adversary tries to get them to postpone the trip. But no luck. Nancy is determined to carry through her plans. During the girls' investigation of old southern mansions, they encounter a ghost who turns the tables and makes them disappear. Eerie sounds come from a beautiful estate that is surrounded by a high brick wall.
Why will the owner allow no one to enter? Their uncle wants to restore an old showboat, the River Princess, but no one will go near it! Mysterious occurrences are making everything believe the boat is haunted.
Can Nancy uncover the truth? Drew's new clients, Mr. Sakamaki, requests Nancy's help solving a mystery. Sakamaki recently inherited his grandfather's estate in Hawaii, but two strangers arrive, claiming to also be the grandchildren of his deceased grandfather.
Strook requests Nancy's help finding an old stagecoach she believes her uncle hid in her hometown of Francisville. Strook believes the stagecoach houses a clue that will be valuable for the town! Can Nancy help her find the missing stagecoach? Soong solve the mystery. Her neighbor's granddaughter, Chi Che Soong, has gone missing! Nancy and her friends fly to New York to help track down the missing girl.
From the moment the detective and her friends Bess and George arrive at the mansion, the dancing puppet puzzle is further complicated by Tammi Whitlock, the Footlighters' temperamental leading lady, and Emmet Calhoun, a Shakespearean actor.
Nancy's search of the mansion's dark, musty attic for clues to the weird mystery starts a frightening chain reaction. A phone call from a stranger with a witchlike, cackling voice warns her to "Get out!
When Nancy finally sees the life-size puppet flitting across the moonlit lawn and chases it, she learns that someone with a sinister motive is determined to keep her form solving the case. Is it one of the Footlighters? Or is it an outsider? Adams Nancy is puzzled when she receives a valuable moonstone as a gift from a stranger.
This leads her to locate the Bowens' missing seventeen-year-old granddaughter. But it is only the first of several startling events in this complex mystery that challenge the ingenuity of the pretty sleuth. Why are the Bowens - a missionary couple who recently returned to the United States - having so much trouble finding their missing seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Joanie Horton? Nancy and her friends travel to Deep River, the town where the young Jonie lived.
From the motel where Nancy and her friends stay, they can see an intriguing castlelike structure with a drawbridge. Gossipy Mrs. Hemstead at the village tearoom insists that Moonstone Castle is haunted. Curious, the three girls attempt to explore the abandoned castle, but an ominous voice warns them away. Other strange happenings in Deep River convince Nancy that there is a connection between Moonstone Castle and the mysterious moonstone gift. But what is the significance? And where does the baffling disappearance of Joanie Horton fit into the intricate puzzle?
Adams Despite warnings not to, Nancy goes to visit her great-grandmother at an imposing estate in the Scottish Highlands and solves the mystery of a missing family heirloom. Undaunted by the vicious threats, the young detective - with her father and her two close friends - goes to visit her great-grandmother at an imposing estate in the Scottish Highlands, and to solve the mystery of a missing family heirloom.
And there is another mystery to be solved: the fate of flocks of stolen sheep. Baffling clues challenge Nancy's powers of deduction: a note written in the ancient Gaelic language, a deserted houseboat on Loch Lomond, a sinister red-bearded stranger in Edinburgh, eerie whistling noises in the Highlands. Startling discoveries in an old castle and in the ruins of a prehistoric fortress, lead Nancy closer to finding the solution to both mysteries.
Uncle John Rorick, a descendant of the early settlers of the town of Emerson, invites the three girls to be his guests at his historic mansion on Pine Hill. Shortly after their arrival, he tells them about the phantom who haunts the mansion's library. Uncle John also relates the weird family saga of a lost French wedding gown and valuable gifts which went to the bottom of a nearby cove in the sinking of the Lucy Belle a hundred years before.
Could there possibly be some connection between the phantom and the old ship disaster? Nancy wonders. In between enjoying the university's June Week boat races, river pageant, and fraternity dances, Nancy and her friends work diligently to solve the mystery of Pine Hill and to find the long-lost wedding treasures.
Her search leads her to France, but before she leaves the United States, an unknown person calling himself Monsieur Neuf warns the young sleuth not to pursue her mission. With her friends Bess and George, Nancy arrives in Paris to join her father who is working on another case: to find out what, or who, is frightening wealth financier Monsieur Leblanc into selling large amounts of securities. Startling discoveries convince the young detective that Mr.
Drew's case and her own mystery are linked by the 99 steps, and that a mysterious man has a strong hold over Leblanc. Is it blackmail? Nancy's quest for further clues leads to the romantic chateau country in the Loire Valley, where a web of danger closes in tightly around the three girls.
A clue is carved on an intriguing wooden plaque that is so old, most of the crossword cipher is obliterated. When a notorious gang headed by El Gato the Cat steals the priceless relic, Nancy's hopes of solving the mystery are almost shattered. But the daring young detective's ability to think fast and act quickly results in the recovery of the plaque. Nancy's determined efforts to decode the crossword decipher take her to the magnificent, awe-inspiring Incan ruins at Cuzco and Machu Pichu.
Through clever deductions, perseverance, and dangerous adventures, Nancy and her friends help to capture a ring of vicious smugglers and go on to make an astounding archaeological discovery.
Excitement runs high as the teen-age detective delves into the theft of a fabulous sapphire formed by nature millions of years ago. The mystery starts in Nancy's home town. Her lawyer father's client, Floyd Ramsay, who fashions beautiful and unusual synthetic gems, is accused of stealing the magnificent spider sapphire and exhibiting it as his own creation.
Ramsay's enemies blackmail him and by their vicious acts try to deter Nancy from going on the safari. Readers will join Nancy as she uncovers a nefarious scheme and solves the strange disappearance of an injured jungle guide. Despite the mysterious warning, the teenage detective and a group of friends start out on a ghost-hunting expedition to investigate five places reputed to be haunted. Danger strikes at once when Nancy tries to overtake the canoe that paddles itself on Lake Sevanee.
Thrills and chills mount as the ghost hunters pursue a phantom horse and ghost rider racing across the field that surrounds the Red Barn Guesthouse. During these happenings and other weird events Nancy finds herself pitted against a dangerous adversary, clever enough to operate invisibly. Adams The disappearance of Carson's young Turkish client and the gift of an Oriental rug with a coded message woven in it start Nancy on a difficult search for a missing mannequin.
Drew's and the gift of an Oriental rug with a coded message woven into its decorative border start Nancy on a difficult search for a missing mannequin. What happened to the attractive figure that Farouk Tahmasp used in the display window of this rug shop? Who is trying to keep Nancy from finding it - and why? Their sleuthing leads them to the Grand Bazaar in the exotic city of Istanbul, where Bess mysteriously disappears. Suspense mounts when Nancy encounters a vengeful enemy at an ancient underground reservoir.
Events move swiftly as Nancy and her friends try to solve this challenging mystery! But despite the threat of danger from the robot, Nancy is determined to solve the mystery of the weird house and to locate the missing owner who is wanted by the police. It takes keen logic and quick thinking for the young detective to plow through the tangled thicket of clues and find the key to this complex puzzle.
With the help of her friends, Nancy captures an elusive swindler and uncovers the secret of the crooked banister, but not before they have several hair-raising adventures - one on a broken bridge over flaming water, another in a hidden room with poisoned portraits! Upon their arrival, Nancy becomes mixed up in a vacation hoax and is nearly arrested for fraud. On the wooded mountain near the cabin further exciting events await Nancy and the other girls.
In the deep forest, a weird luminescent green sorcerer appears who threatens to cast an evil spell on anyone investigating his strange activities. In a dangerous twist of circumstances Nancy finds that solving one mystery helps to solve another. What happens when the young detective and her friends uncover a cleverly concealed criminal operation? Adams A strange incident involves Nancy in Carson's case concerning a rare bird farm threatened with destruction to make room for a high-rise apartment house complex.
Did the person who put it there do so with the intent of jinxing Nancy and her father? This strange incident involves Nancy in her famous father's case concerning a rare bird farm threatened with destruction to make room for a high-rise apartment house complex.
People who are opposed to the ruthless take-over of the farm are being made the victims of jinxing by bad luck symbols and other threats to their safety. Even Nancy and her friend Ned Nickerson become targets!
Nancy soon realizes that helping honest people to overcome their superstitions and fears can be as challenging as tracking down criminals. The young detective's thrilling adventures will keep the reader in breathless suspense from the first page to the last. A puzzling note in Ned's handwriting set Nancy and her friends Bess and George on a hazardous search for a bizarre criminal.
From their base of operations, the Emerson College campus, the three girl detectives and Ned's college pals follow a maze of clues to locate the kidnapper's hideout and rescue Ned. Not only is Nancy greatly worried about Ned, but also she is alarmed by the high-handed methods of a woman lawyer who tries to take the case away from her.
Readers will follow Nancy's exciting adventures as she unravels this dangerous web of mystery. There are rumors that long ago a treasure was hidden in a city now buried under the Nevada desert.
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