Without a Trace

by Carolyn Keene

Nancy Drew: Girl Detective (1), Nancy Drew (Girl Detective series — Girl Detective 1)

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Hi, I'm Nancy Drew, and I've got a case to crack. Actually make that two cases. First a gorgeous Fabergé egg has been stolen. Who would have the heart to snatch such a precious family heirloom from someone new to town? Some housewarming that is! And if this isn't enough to keep me busy, someone's running through gardens and stomping on all the zucchinis. Needless to say, it's a big mess - in more ways than one. Especially for Mr. Safer, who is suspected of squishing the squash. I'm pretty show more sure Mr. Safer's innocent. But who's the real vegetable vandal? show less

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I thought that "Without a trace" was a very thoughtful, but boring book. This book talks about a Faberge egg, an family heirloom has been stolen. Then, someone starts to squah all the zucchinis in town. I know, very weird. I thought the book was really boring because the thief was there all along and the zucchinis, well that was boring too. For all you know, it could have been an animal. There wasn't any action to make a mystery book exciting. Even though I love Nancy Drew books, this book is the worst in the series because the plot was down-right boring with no action at all. If I could improve this book, I would add a relationship between the thief and Nancy, to build up the intensity. I would also take out the zucchini part because show more it doesn't fit in the story. show less
I thought this was a fairly good start to yet another updated Nancy Drew series. All the familiar characters are here, from Nancy's housekeeper, Hannah Gruen, to her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson. The plot is fairly simple in this one; a Faberge egg has been stolen, and it's up to Nancy to figure out who did it. She does, of course, and while it wasn't really a complex mystery to me, I'm sure it will be a little less obvious to younger readers.
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When a zucchini smasher, smashes zucchinis and steals a Faberge egg, Nancy Drew is on the case. Nancy drew has to keep a neighbors friendship together by getting to the bottom of the mysteries. These mysteries just so happened to appear at the same time that the new neighbors moved in. Nancy finds out if the Faberge egg and the zucchini smasher have anything in common, or if the new neighbors have anything to do with the crimes. Not only does Nancy have a hard time figuring out the cases, but she also gets hurt trying to figure them out. Nancy always figures out her cases and in the end she finds out who committed the crimes.
I thought this was a good book and I wouldn't mind reading more of the books in this series. When I was younger, show more Nancy Drew books were my favorite. I loved reading the books that I've always and can't wait to read more of Nancy Drew's amazing mysteries. show less
This book was an easy read, but kind of boring.
This book is about a group of girls (george, Bessy and Nancy) who start their investigation with trying to find out who messed up the zuchini from the vegetable garden. when the three friends go to simone's house andmdo a little digging, they make friends with the single yet in with in with her nephew who is going to university of maryland. everything was going fine and dandy on the case until simone called nancy and had some uneasy news. someone stole simones pride and joy, her Faberg Egg.
A Faberg Egg is a priceless egg that was found in the mines kof simones great great great great grandfather.it has been in her family for a lot of generations. so for nancy to get it back. she first has to solve the other investigation. when she show more solves itshe will find the culpurate. then mostlikely that was going to be theperson who did it. but the nephews friends were hiding itin their suitcases like the egotystical wierd teenagers are. but it all turns up well in the end. show less
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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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Engen, Kari (Translator)
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Without a Trace
Original title
Without a trace
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Nancy Drew; Mr. Safer

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Fiction and Literature
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PS3537 .T817 .W48Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1900-1960
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