Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will. Read more

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After capsizing her rowboat on Twin Lakes, Nancy Drew sets out to help the girl who saved her life investigate the mysterious events surrounding a deserted bungalow Read more

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Nancy must find the answer to why someone is destroying the wildlife in a refuge in the Rocky Mountains. Read more

Nancy Drew becomes involved in a mystery centering around a strange oriental perfume Read more

Nancy witnesses the malicious burning of a stately home, and becomes convinced of the prime suspect's innocence Read more

Nancy Drew receives a letter meant for a British heiress who has the same name and, in her attempts to contact the other young woman, faces danger from a man who operates a Lonely Hearts Club mail frau. Read more

When Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery of a hidden family treasure for her friend Cecily Curtis at Misty Lake, she encounters strange apparitions and a haunted house Read more

Nancy and her friends establish headquarters in a seaside yacht club to investigate strange happenings in a book store and the disappearance of a marble statue. Read more

Nancy Drew becomes involved in a double mystery concerning a haunted bridge and jewel thieves. Read more

Nancy Drew tries to find a clue to the strange tapping sounds in the house of a retired actress. Read more

A trunk that Nancy receives from her father for a trip to Buenos Aires becomes the center of a mystery. Read more

Prompted by the concerns of a young child, Nancy investigates a small studio on the Chatham estate. She discovers that there is a connection between the mysterious occurrences at Ship Cottage and her search for a treasure island. With only half of a ... Read more

Nancy and her friends help a woman search for her missing grandson. Read more

Nancy Drew races against time to unravel the clues in a dead man's letters. If she succeeds, Philip March and his little granddaughter can be saved from financial ruin. Following obscure clues, Nancy undertakes a search for some unpublished musical m... Read more

When Nancy is asked to find a professional dancer who disappeared several years before, the young detective becomes involved in a mystery reaching far beyond a missing-person's case. During Nancy's investigation at Heath Castle, she and her friends B... Read more

Nancy Drew and her two friends help uncover a gang of swindlers while vacationing in a seaside town. Read more

The young sleuth searches for a treasure hidden in a city now buried under the Nevada desert. Read more

Nancy Drew and her friend Bess discover that a rare and valuable Chinese vase has been stolen from the pottery shop of Dick Milton, a cousin of Bess. Dick had borrowed the vase from his Chinese friend, elderly Mr. Soong, and he is determined to repay... Read more

Nancy Drew and her friends visit an old clipper ship in Boston Harbor and help Captain Easterly uncover a mystery Read more

Once again Nancy Drew is involved in a mystery as she tries to locate an archaeologist who disappeared with the clues to a buried treasure. Read more

When Nancy learns that the Drews' housekeeper has been duped by an elegantly dressed woman into buying a stolen fur piece, the young detective starts a search for the clever swindler. To Nancy's astonishment, she discovers that the woman is using the... Read more

Nancy Drew joins the circus in order to investigate the mystery surrounding a gold charm bracelet and a young orphaned aerialist. Read more

Nancy is given a beautiful gold bracelet and finds that one of the charms is missing. When she learns the unusual story behind the jewelry, she sets out to solve the fascinating mystery. The bracelet had been presented to a former circus performer by... Read more

Nancy meets Helene and Henri Fontaine, refugees from Centorvia who run a dancing school in River Heights. Strange circumstances have brought the brother and sister to the United States. When they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives, Nan... Read more

A magazine article offering a large reward to anyone who can find a missing medieval stained-glass window intrigues Nancy. She asks Bess and George to join her on a search in Charlottesville, Virginia. Before the three friends leave River Heights, th... Read more

Nancy and her pals are off to New Orleans to solve the mystery of a haunted riverboat. Read more

Nancy is given an aerial view of a burglar entering her home during a Honolulu vacation Read more

Mrs. Strook requests Nancy's help finding an old stagecoach she believes her uncle hid in her hometown of Francisville. Mrs. Strook believes the stagecoach houses a clue that will be valuable for the town! Can Nancy help her find the missing stagecoa... Read more

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. Read more

The disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl leads Nancy into an intriguing mystery involving a castlelike building with a drawbridge Read more

Warnings not to go to Scotland can’t stop Nancy Drew from setting out on a thrill-packed mystery adventure. Undaunted by the vicious threats, the young detective – with her father and her two close friends – goes to visit her great-grandmother at an ... Read more

Nancy and her two friends spend a week as guests in a Georgian mansion where they capture a phantom Read more

Lovely young Carla Ponce, who lives in Peru, invites Nancy and her friends Bess and George to visit her and solve her "monkey mystery," which promises to lead to a fabulous treasure. A clue is carved on an intriguing wooden plaque that is so old, mos... Read more

Thrilling, dangerous adventures confront Nancy Drew while on a safari in East Africa with a group of American college students. Excitement runs high as the teen-age detective delves into the theft of a fabulous sapphire formed by nature millions of y... Read more

"Nancy Drew, forget the ghost hunt!" a male voice rasps on the telephone. 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 st... Read more

The strange disappearance of a young Turkish client of Mr. 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 ... Read more

Nancy and her friends Bess and George spend an exciting week exploring a mysterious zigzag house with its fantastically crooked staircase, its bizarre serpent picture, and an unpredictable robot that nearly causes the young detective to lose her life... Read more

Aunt Eloise Drew invited Nancy and her friends to Mirror Bay Bide-a-Wee cabin near Cooperstown, New York, for a visit and a chance to solve the mystery of the woman who glides across the water. Upon their arrival, Nancy becomes mixed up in a vacation... Read more

A bird of ill omen is mysteriously left on the Drews' front lawn. 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 thre... Read more

When Nancy Drew eagerly agrees to help her lawyer father solve the mystery of the glowing eye, she has no way of knowing that it will involve the kidnapping of her close friend Ned Nickerson. A puzzling note in Ned's handwriting set Nancy and her fri... Read more

Gold! There are rumors that long ago a treasure was hidden in a city now buried under the Nevada desert. Nancy and her friends plan to join a dig sponsored by two colleges to hunt for the gold. Before she starts, the young sleuth receives an ancient ... Read more

While vacationing in the Midwest with her friends, Nancy Drew investigates a mysterious magnetic cloud, searches for a stolen plane, and hunts a horse thief. Read more

A sheep farmer receives a mysterious telephone call shortly after he buys a series of pictures painted on parchment. "Decipher the message in the parchment and right a great wrong," the voice says. Puzzled, the owner asks Nancy to help. With Junie, ... Read more

In a response to a friend's call for help, Nancy's father, a lawyer, asks her to travel to mysterious Crocodile Island with her friends Bes and George to study the reptiles and try to uncover a group of suspected poachers. Upon their arrival in Flor... Read more

Nancy is asked to locate a stolen pearl necklace that is unusual and very valuable. She soon learns that strange and dangerous people are responsible for the theft. They harass her at home and intensify it when she and her father go to Japan, until t... Read more

When Nancy and her friends ride deep into the Sawniegunk Forest in search of a flying saucer, they find themselves in the middle of more than one mystery. Wildcats, runaway horses, deadly snakes, and a disappearing Indian keep the sleuths tangled in ... Read more

While in Belgium investigating the mystery surrounding an antique cross, Nancy and her friends learn that her entry in a short story contest may somehow be involved. Read more

Her friends Bess and George accompany Nancy to Greece where there are two mysteries they want to solve. Read more

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. Read more

At a fitness ranch in Arizona, Nancy discovers the reason for mysterious accidents thought to result from a curse put on the place by Hopi Indians. Read more

Trouble plagues a student tour through Europe as Nancy becomes involved in a plot to smuggle refugee children across the Austrian border from Eastern Europe. Read more

A quest for pirate treasure takes clever detective Nancy Drew and her friends to a small island in the Bahamas. Read more

Nancy's latest mystery involves golf pros, opera stars, jewelry designers, and webs and spiders. Read more

Nancy sets out to locate a kidnapped actress and to clear one of her father's clients, a renowned photographer, accused of stealing ideas for his images. Read more

The young sleuth travels to Cornwall, England to uncover a mysterious coven of witches plaguing an old friend. Read more

Nancy visits a movie set and finds terror on location! World-famous director Hank Steinberg is filming a horror flick in Nancy's hometown of River Heights. The movie tells a spine-tingling story about a haunted house. Most shocking of all, though, is... Read more

Nancy's discovery of a treasure map leads her into a network of underground passageways beneath a spooky cemetery, where she uncovers a series of clues to both a recent outbreak of robberies and the location of a long-lost fortune in gold. Read more

When two television stars turn up missing at the Mystery Lovers of American convention, Nancy encounters a fake gun that shoots real bullets, and a dangerous cab ride with no driver in order to solve the mystery. Read more

When a con artist switches contracts with famed local painter Lila Cramer, Nancy Drew has just four days to catch the crook, or Lila will have to forfeit her entire collection. Read more

Nancy finds herself in the middle of a mystery while attending the International High School track and Field Games. Read more

An invitation to a rustic retreat in upstate New York seems like a dream come true until a series of threatening messages, a poisoned picnic, and tales of a haunted mansion send many of the island patrons away, but Nancy is determined to stay and unc... Read more

Nancy must find the answer to why someone is destroying the wildlife in a refuge in the Rocky Mountains. Read more

Nancy must discover who is blackmailing a foreign exchange student who is staying with one of Nancy's neighbors. Read more

Nancy seeks the final piece of an ominous puzzle--carved in ancient green stone. Read more

Someone is threatening the life of Nancy's best friend. Nancy Drew Mystery. Read more

Nancy volunteers on a hospital ship and discovers that it is being used to haul illegal cargo. Read more

/MEGA-BOOKS The latest addition to this popular series is written in a lively, up-to-date style and features all the familiar series characters young readers love. While investigating the theft of a Tibetan golden horse from the local museum, Nancy d... Read more

When a local ballet production is plagued by thefts and other problems, Nancy steps in to save the show. Read more

In search of a saboteur, Nancy finds that every desert trail leads to danger. Read more

Nancy joins an Elizabethan troupe as a lady to the queen's court. There are performances and feasts, but the true drama unfolds when Nancy learns that she, the queen, and the entire festival have been targeted for sabotage. Read more

When someone targets the seaport museum in Bridgehaven, Connecticut, destroying centuries-old nautical relics, Nancy takes times from her vacation to track down the vandal. Read more

Nancy's out to catch a cat thief, and mend a friend's broken heart. Read more

The owner of a toy and teddy bear shop where Bess is working during the Christmas rush is robbed of his prized collection of antique bears. Read more

Accompanying George to the Wolfe Culinary Institute in upstate New York, Nancy discovers that ambition, jealousy, and greed are also on the menu there. Original. Read more

NANCY LOOKS INTO A SEEMINGLY HARMLESS PRANK AND FINDS EVIDENCE OF AN ARTFUL CRIMINAL COVER-UP! The River Heights High Wildcats are facing their bitter rivals, Red Rocks High, in a girls' softball play-off game. But before the first pitch is thrown, t... Read more

Nancy volunteers on a hospital ship and discovers that it is being used to haul illegal cargo. Read more

Nancy's friend Yasmine has a neighbor who has been making a weekly delivery of a cash-stuffed envelope to an unknown location. Nancy follows her and learns that the money and the answers lie in the hands of Madame Destiny. Read more

Visiting the nation's capital for a sight-seeing vacation, Nancy is alarmed when a priceless Mayan artifact disappears from the Beech Hill museum and finds her only clue in a strange note containing a red handprint. Original. Read more

Traveling to the site of a commercial shoot, where her model friend Cindy will star, Nancy is alarmed by Cindy's disappearance and launches an investigation that takes her into the shady side of teen fashion. Read more

When George takes a delivery job for a local pharmacy, three customers fall prey to lethal poisons that are substituted for medicine, and Nancy must solve the case before George is named a prime suspect. Original. Read more

Anticipating a fun-filled winter skiing vacation in Wisconsin, Nancy Drew and her friends soon learn that the lodge harbors scary secrets and a hidden treasure, and the teen sleuth is out to discover the truth. Original. Read more

When her friend is accused of burglarizing the three houses where she had baby-sitting jobs, Nancy decides to catch the real thief in the act and gets herself into mounting danger as the evidence piles up. Original. Read more

New York City. There's no place more exciting, more intriguing, or more dangerous for Nancy. Her father's been kidnapped, and she may be his last chance to get out of New York alive Read more

Helping her father to inventory the contents of a 150-year-old log cabin, Nancy becomes involved in the investigation into their next-door neighbor, bluegrass performer Sassy, whose house has mysteriously burned down. Original. Read more

Nancy's friend, Laura Passano, has invited her down to Maryland for a horse-riding holiday. The trip is a real treat but there's a catch. Someone is out to sabotage the Pissano family stables by poisoning the horses' feed. Is this the work of enraged... Read more

Has someone got it in for George's nice Aunt Elizabeth, just because she proposes certain measures to save a rare species of bat? A threatening phone call, a sinister warning hung in the doorway, and a sabotaged car convince Nancy Drew that much more... Read more

Nancy is in Brooklyn, New York, to help her friend Zoe Krieger raise money for a local park. The fund-raiser's main attraction is a concert by The Raving Lunatics. But the group's lead singer is kidnapped and when Nancy investigates, she discovers th... Read more

During a trip to England's Oxford University with her father, Nancy Drew is drawn into a investigation into the life and death of Dame Gwyneth Davies, a famous mystery writer, and uncovers a dark veil of family secrets and tragedy. Original. Read more

Nancy, Bess and George are on holiday in Big Sur, on the rugged California coastline. It isn't long after they check into the Opa Tourist Lodge that Nancy discovers their retreat is a hotbed of crime and deception. Read more

The police suspect some of the junior high kids in Nancy Drew's after-school program of breaking into houses. But when Nancy sets out to find the truth, she finds herself in danger. The real crooks are determined to shut her down--before she shuts th... Read more

Nancy investigates a shocking crime at the White House. Read more

On Maui to watch an international, big-money surfing competition, Nancy, Bess, and George discover trouble in paradise when one of Nancy's surfer friends receives a death threat and may wind up taking a permanent dive. Original. Read more

Another adventure of the plucky girl detective, Nancy Drew. Read more

A SEARCH FOR A MISSING HORSE LEADS NANCY TO A DARK DISCOVERY! Nancy's attending the Midwest Grand Prix Dressage Championships, where many of the world's best riders and finest horses compete. But more than blue ribbons is at stake. As Nancy quickly l... Read more

AT A HAUNTED HISTORIC VILLAGE, NANCY SEES THE GHOSTLY SIGNS OF FOUL PLAY Nancy loves a good mystery. That's why she, Bess, and George are volunteering at Persimmon Woods Pioneer Village, a living history museum of the 1830s. Nancy's heard that a lot ... Read more

Another adventure of the plucky girl detective, Nancy Drew, in which history becomes mystery as she unravels a haunting case. Read more

Nancy and George take part in their friends' filming of a pirate movie, but Nancy must investigate a series of robberies at the hotel where they are staying and the discovery of gold doubloons. Read more

Nancy drives down a dark, winding road when someone steals a road sign, and is almost killed by a bronze statue when she finally arrives at Moorsea Manor. Read more

DELVING INTO THE HISTORY OF AN OLD ESTATE, NANCY INHERITS A DANGEROUS LEGACY! The vintage blue satin jacket Nancy just purchased suits her perfectly. But an old safe-deposit receipt and a brass key sewn into the jacket's pocket lining spark her inter... Read more

Nancy wants to know why someone is trying to put Katie out of business. Her answer may be very dangerous and life threatening. Read more

A strange man appears at Nancy's old friend's island plantation brandishing a cutlass, and Nancy discovers a faded love letter with clues to the hiding place of a long-dead pirate's gift, an emerald necklace. Read more

Aa popular host of an astronomy radio show goes missing and his rival is implicated. Read more

When rival candidates for president of the IFC at Emerson College accuse each other of smearing the campaign with dirty tricks, Nancy must uncover the clues. Read more

Strange things are happening at Waverly Academy so Nancy and George go undercover to solve the mystery. It isn't long before Nancy gets a menacing curse note from the Black Cat. Read more

When strange events occur just before the opening of the Van Hoogstraten mansion and its priceless collection of glass birds, and a crystal centerpiece disappears, Nancy investigates family members and antiques dealers. Read more

When Nancy and her friends visit the Florida Everglades, they join in the search for a missing park volunteer, Jade Romero, and for the sculpture of a panther said to be hidden in the backwoods. Read more

After taking some items to an appraisal show, George discovers that inside his old recorder is a tape containing Lou Knight's last song, and when it is stolen, Nancy and Bess discover that other visitors to the show have been robbed also. Read more

Nancy investigates when a professor who runs a forensics lab fall into a coma and other dangerous events occur. Read more

After Rhoda Benton, the director of an arts colony on Pennington estate, is threatened, Nancy and Bess search for the perpetrator. Read more

A MOUNTAIN LAKE HARBORS A HIDDEN PAST! A charming lakeside cottage should be the perfect vacation spot for Nancy and her friends -- until Bess becomes convinced that they're sharing the place with ghosts. Strange thumps in the attic put them all on e... Read more

Nancy Drew and friends Bess and George are all geared up for a bike tour in Ireland, looking forward to the scenery, romantic ruins, entertainment, and cozy inns. But soon the three friends realize that from the moment they arrived, someone seems to ... Read more

How Many Strings Will Fray Before A Family Business Falls Apart? Nancy, George, and Bess are going on a vacation to Paris, and Nancy's father pulled a few strings to get the girls some quaint accommodations:a tiny top-floor flat in a small three-stor... Read more

How many campers can ride this wave of danger? Read more

THERE'S MORE EXCITEMENT ON THIS CRUISE SHIP THAN NANCY BARGAINED FOR! Nancy, Bess, and George are going on a cruise around the Great Lakes for a fantastic end-of-summer vacation! As soon as the girls set foot on the ship, though, they smell somethin... Read more

This Resort Has The Recipe For Disaster! Nancy's thrilled that she, Bess, George, and Hannah will be attending the grand opening of the newly renovated Gourmet Getaway. Not only will they be able to eat four-star meals prepared by master chefs, they'... Read more