Nobody's Business

Nobody's Business

Carolyn Keene

Children's Books / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult

Nancy, Ned and Bess are helping Ned's friend Andrew with construction to transform a grand old inn into a hot new rock club but it has turned into a design for disaster. Someone is playing deadly pranks on the voulnteers of the building site but Nancy's determined to stop a saboteur before the dirty business gets downright deadly!
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The Red Slippers

The Red Slippers

Carolyn Keene

Children's Books / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult

Sabotage could result in a final curtain call for a ballerina’s career in this eleventh book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a classic mystery series. Nancy and Bess are excited when they run into their old friend Maggie Rogers in River Heights. As little girls, Bess and Nancy were in dance classes with Maggie, until she moved away to attend a prestigious ballet academy. Now Maggie is part of a ballet company made up of the most promising young dancers in the state, and the company is in town to perform Sleeping Beauty. This performance is especially important because the famous dance critic Oscar LaVigne will be in the audience. A good review could catapult Maggie’s career…but a bad one could ruin everything. In the days leading up to the big show, strange things start happening. First someone tampers with Maggie’s phone, making her late to rehearsal. Then Maggie’s face is violently scratched out of all the official show posters, and she finds her dressing room completely destroyed. All signs point to sabotage, and Nancy is determined to find out who’s behind it. Will she crack the case in time—or is Sleeping Beauty destined to be Maggie’s last dance?
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Mystery at Moorsea Manor

Mystery at Moorsea Manor

Carolyn Keene

Children's Books / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult

No room at the inn means someone wants Nancy to check out -- permanently! There's nothing like riding a horse across the beautiful English countryside, and Nancy has been looking forward to this vacation. But the danger begins even before she arrives at stately Moorsea Manor. Someone steals a road sign, sending Nancy down a dark, twisting road to nowhere. When she finally finds the inn, she's almost killed by a bronze statue dropped from a second-story window! The owners tell her that there have been other pranks as well. But someone's going to get hurt -- and that means Moorsea Manor will be out of business. Now it's up to Nancy to find the culprit, before the guest list becomes a casualty list!
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The Secret Santa

The Secret Santa

Carolyn Keene

Children's Books / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult

It's a Ho! Ho! Ho-rrible trick! Christmas is coming, and Nancy's third grade class is having a Secret Santa exchange. That means cards, candy, and a special gift for everyone. Everyone except Nancy Drew! Is it a mistake? Is somebody just being silly or mean? Or is someone hiding something and afraid to tell the truth? One thing's for sure. Nancy's presents are gone, and all she has to unwrap is one big mystery!
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The Double Jinx Mystery

The Double Jinx Mystery

Carolyn Keene

Children's Books / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult

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 the girl detective in her father’s case concerning a rare bird farm threatened with destruction to make room for a high-rise apartment house complex. The use of jinxes to threaten those who oppose the construction leads Nancy to find the criminals behind the jinxing. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.
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The Case of the Vanishing Veil

The Case of the Vanishing Veil

Carolyn Keene

Children's Books / Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult

A Boston Wedding... A Veiled Threat... A Dangerous Environment... When Nancy attends a wedding in Boston, she encounters a marriage marred by mischief. The groom may have stolen the bride's heart, but a thief has made off with her antique lace veil! From a mansion in Cape Cod to a museum of witchcraft in Salem, Nancy, Bess, and George follow a trail of intrigue and deceit across the New England countryside. They uncover the shocking story behind the wedding-day prank -- and a $60 million mystery behind the vanishing veil!
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