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Nancy investigates a thirty-year-old mystery involving the bizarre death of Mayor John Harrington.Tags
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A reread, but felt almost new to me since it's been over a year. Enjoyed this one immensely, with Nancy challenged by her nemesis, newspaper reporter Brenda Carlton, to uncover a 30-year old mystery surrounding the death of John Harrison, who at the time was running for River Height mayor. The backstory of Hannah's past was intriguing, as was the relationship quandary between Ned and Nancy. I recall that Two Points to Murder (File #8) is when their relationship was starting to crumble. I really enjoyed Nancy's exploits in the dumbwaiter at the Harrison House estate. That felt like a vintage canon (book) element. Overall, a fantastic read! One of the very best in the Files series.
While the trip I'm taking through The Nancy Drew Files YA mystery series from the '80s and '90s is a revisit overall, I'm rather sure this was my first time reading Book #10.
A pretty fun couple of hours or so of reading for me, here. For this case, Nancy half-teams-up, half-competes with Brenda Carlton, a proud and catty newspaper reporter who pops up in some of the books and always gets on Nancy's nerves.
Now, despite the fact that Nancy is such a famous teen detective, she misses a big, obvious clue during this investigation—not the first time that's ever happened. But her daring is entertaining, and a particular, gutsy action of hers during the climax was one that I all but felt in my head and lungs, in a satisfying way.
Nancy's show more relationship with her (apparently) beloved Ned is still on uncertain ground after their recent ups and downs in previous books. A step in their romance plays a key role in the mystery action this time.
I didn't realize it'd taken me almost nine months to get to this book after I finished the one before it. I imagine I'll be moving on to Book #11 in less time than that. show less
A pretty fun couple of hours or so of reading for me, here. For this case, Nancy half-teams-up, half-competes with Brenda Carlton, a proud and catty newspaper reporter who pops up in some of the books and always gets on Nancy's nerves.
Now, despite the fact that Nancy is such a famous teen detective, she misses a big, obvious clue during this investigation—not the first time that's ever happened. But her daring is entertaining, and a particular, gutsy action of hers during the climax was one that I all but felt in my head and lungs, in a satisfying way.
Nancy's show more relationship with her (apparently) beloved Ned is still on uncertain ground after their recent ups and downs in previous books. A step in their romance plays a key role in the mystery action this time.
I didn't realize it'd taken me almost nine months to get to this book after I finished the one before it. I imagine I'll be moving on to Book #11 in less time than that. show less
One of the first Nancy Drew books I ever read, way before I got into the actual series. Wonderful, suspensful book, holds many memories for me.
Nancy tries to solve a 30-year-old murder mystery of the father of a man she saves from a sniper.
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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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