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Nancy receives an urgent call from her Aunt Eloise in New York, requesting her help in solving a 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.Tags
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Nancy is on the case to find the missing granddaughter of a Chinese neighbor of Eloise Drew. Chi Che (the granddaughter) is presumed to have been kidnapped for reasons unknown. All she left behind is a hurried half-finished letter asking for help. Nancy’s case takes her from New York City to Hong Kong in search of Chi Che. George and Bess tag along to help out. Lots of peril in this mystery as Nancy is kidnapped, not once but twice!, and George is almost kidnapped while impersonating Chi Che to potentially draw out the villains.
Nancy receives an urgent call from her Aunt Eloise in New York, requesting her help in solving a 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.
“Maybe it was me, but I didn’t like this one much.”
Review from a visiting houseguest.
Review from a visiting houseguest.
LOVED IT!! This Nancy Drew book is super GREAT!!
Read Oct 2015. 7 of 10
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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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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Mystery of the Fire Dragon
- Original publication date
- 1961
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew; Ned Nickerson; Carson Drew; Eloise Drew; Bess Marvin; George Fayne (show all 8); Grandpa Soong; Chi Che
- Important places
- Hong Kong
- First words
- What else does Ned say, Nancy?" Mr. Drew asked.
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- Reviews
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- Languages
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- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 12