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Nancy hunts for the midnight prowler responsible for causing a string of accidents at the Webb Cove Ski Lodge.Tags
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More quick and easy entertainment for me as I'm revisiting The Nancy Drew Files series. Appropriately, this third '80s YA mystery in the series has some heaps of harrowing danger that could only take place on a mountain.
There's also a case of insta-love that leads to an insta-grudge identical to a love/grudge situation in the previous book: One of Nancy's best friends turns her back on Nancy over a guy. Only this time it's the other of Nancy's two besties.
Hey. Maybe the lasting friendship-and-mysteries thing the trio has wouldn't work for them without one or another of them rushing straight to emotional extremes sometimes. Heh heh. It's more interesting to see Nancy's boyfriend Ned's hint of disappointment at yet another mystery popping show more up and taking her attention, since he'd prefer to have a normal vacation with his girlfriend. Although he wraps his disappointment in humor this time and helps her out as always, I don't doubt this kind of thing will eventually put a strain on their relationship.
As for the mystery, again, it's also interesting but with a couple of glaringly contrived traps. Just about anyone with a teaspoon of common sense would know not to walk right into some of the deadly trouble Nancy ends up in, here. Her clear lack of judgment in those moments is unbelievable for an experienced detective of reported international fame.
But then, it isn't like I expect all the believability in the world from these mysteries. And at least Nancy realizes her, well...stupidity after the second of the traps, literally telling herself, "I've been so stupid." She then launches into hardcore (but not cruel) action to defend herself when she must.
On that score: Go, Nance! show less
There's also a case of insta-love that leads to an insta-grudge identical to a love/grudge situation in the previous book: One of Nancy's best friends turns her back on Nancy over a guy. Only this time it's the other of Nancy's two besties.
Hey. Maybe the lasting friendship-and-mysteries thing the trio has wouldn't work for them without one or another of them rushing straight to emotional extremes sometimes. Heh heh. It's more interesting to see Nancy's boyfriend Ned's hint of disappointment at yet another mystery popping show more up and taking her attention, since he'd prefer to have a normal vacation with his girlfriend. Although he wraps his disappointment in humor this time and helps her out as always, I don't doubt this kind of thing will eventually put a strain on their relationship.
As for the mystery, again, it's also interesting but with a couple of glaringly contrived traps. Just about anyone with a teaspoon of common sense would know not to walk right into some of the deadly trouble Nancy ends up in, here. Her clear lack of judgment in those moments is unbelievable for an experienced detective of reported international fame.
But then, it isn't like I expect all the believability in the world from these mysteries. And at least Nancy realizes her, well...stupidity after the second of the traps, literally telling herself, "I've been so stupid." She then launches into hardcore (but not cruel) action to defend herself when she must.
On that score: Go, Nance! show less
Nancy Drew and some of her friends go on a ski trip in Vermont. When Nancy arrives at the lodge the lady who owns it asks for Nancy’s help when she finds out that Nancy is a detective. It seems some mysterious things have been going on at the lodge and the owner is worried. While Nancy investigates, she and her friends run into danger… This was an enjoyable story. I really liked the snowy ski lodge location, and the characters were interesting. Another fine Nancy Drew mystery.
Det märktes att det inte är en bok i originalserien, den här var lite mer inriktad på pojkar och relationer (utöver mysteriet). Men det var trevlig ändå.
nancy's cases would be so much easier (and the books even shorter) had "google" been invented.
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Carolyn Keene was the pseudonym that Mildred Wirt Benson and Walter Karig used to write Nancy Drew books. The idea of Nancy Drew came from Edward Stratemeyer in 1929. He also had other series, that included the Hardy Boys, but he died in 1930 before the Nancy Drew series became famous. His daughters, Harriet and Edna, inherited his company and show more maintained Nancy Drew having Mildred Wirt Benson, the original Carolyn Keene, as the principal ghostwriter. During the Depression, they asked Benson to take a pay cut and she refused, which is when Karig wrote the books. Karig's Nancy Drew books were Nancy's Mysterious Letter, The Sign of the Twisted Candles, and Password to Larkspur Lane. He was fired from writing more books because of his refusal to honor the request that he keep his work as Carolyn Keene a secret. He allowed the Library of Congress to learn of his authorship and his name appeared on their catalog cards. Afterwards, they rehired Benson and she wrote until her last Nancy Drew book (#30) was written in 1953, Clue of the Velvet Mask. Harriet and Edna Stratemeyer also contributed to the Nancy Drew series. Edna wrote plot outlines for several of the early books and Harriet, who claimed to be the sole author, had actually outlined and edited nearly all the volumes written by Benson. The Stratemeyer Syndicate had begun to make its writers sign contracts that prohibited them from claiming any credit for their works, but Benson never denied her writing books for the series. After Harriet's death in 1982, Simon and Schuster became the owners of the Stratemeyer Syndicate properties and in 1994, publicly recognized Benson for her work at a Nancy Drew conference at her alma mater, the University of Iowa. Now, Nancy Drew has several ghostwriters and artists that have contributed to her more recent incarnations. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Murder on Ice
- Original publication date
- 1986
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew
- Important places
- Vermont, USA; Webb Cove Ski Lodge
- First words
- A light snow was falling from the overcast February sky as Nancy Drew steered her Mustang expertly along the twisting Vermont road.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"We have," he added, kissing her again, "a lot of vacationing to catch up on!"
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
- LCC
- PZ7 .K23 .M — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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