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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #58
The Flying Saucer Mystery
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 danger and suspense.
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
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Carolyn Keene
948 books3,854 followersCarolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people- both men and women- over the years. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers. For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator.
Edna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer. Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. It was Mildred Benson (aka: Mildred A. Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. It was her characterization that helped make Nancy an instant hit. The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reins of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys. In 1959, Harriet, along with several writers, began a 25-year project to revise the earlier Carolyn Keene novels. The Nancy Drew books were condensed, racial stereotypes were removed, and the language was updated. In a few cases, outdated plots were completely rewritten.
Other writers of Nancy Drew volumes include Harriet herself, she wrote most of the series after Mildred quit writing for the Syndicate and in 1959 began a revision of the first 34 texts. The role of the writer of "Carolyn Keene" passed temporarily to Walter Karig who wrote three novels during the Great Depression. Also contributing to Nancy Drew's prolific existence were Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., and Margaret Scherf.
Edna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer. Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. It was Mildred Benson (aka: Mildred A. Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. It was her characterization that helped make Nancy an instant hit. The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reins of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys. In 1959, Harriet, along with several writers, began a 25-year project to revise the earlier Carolyn Keene novels. The Nancy Drew books were condensed, racial stereotypes were removed, and the language was updated. In a few cases, outdated plots were completely rewritten.
Other writers of Nancy Drew volumes include Harriet herself, she wrote most of the series after Mildred quit writing for the Syndicate and in 1959 began a revision of the first 34 texts. The role of the writer of "Carolyn Keene" passed temporarily to Walter Karig who wrote three novels during the Great Depression. Also contributing to Nancy Drew's prolific existence were Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., and Margaret Scherf.
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August 14, 2023
Definitely not up to the standards set by the earlier books.
June 25, 2019
This book was a TRIP, y’all. I’m giving it four stars just for the absurd amusement it gave me.
This one was published in 1980, but honestly, you can’t tell. It seems like it was intentionally written to be a little vague about what decade it is. You can easily imagine the Nancy Drew of the 1950s. It’s been too long since I read any Nancy Drew to remember if they’re all written that way.
I feel like this book was written because someone was bored with the same old mystery stories and had an itch for some pulp science fiction. It’s such a strange mash-up and not at all what you’d expect. It starts out normally enough - Nancy & Friends are off to explore a mountain on another whirlwind adventure! They’ve got packhorses, they meet a mountain man by the name of Old Joe (who has his own mystery for them to solve), and a Shawnee Native American named Shoso who is probably a little too much of a stereotype. Then we learn about a swamp, a flying saucer, and acidic dirt that eats through leather. Nancy and boyfriend Ned get high as fucking kites on swamp gas and pass out to have hallucinogenic dreams of flying away to unknown planets, communicating telepathically, and having weird bird feet. To wrap, we find out that Old Joe and Shoso are actually brothers! And the US Air Force comes to reclaim the UFO, which is apparently a craft of their own design (there were some questions about whether it was another country’s craft come to spy on us - but ha! What other country could possibly be more technologically advanced than the good ole US of A?).
The only other thing I’ll add about this book is that ‘plump’ Bess is a girl after my own heart, and George can go eat a bag of dicks for being such a fat-shaming jerk.
This one was published in 1980, but honestly, you can’t tell. It seems like it was intentionally written to be a little vague about what decade it is. You can easily imagine the Nancy Drew of the 1950s. It’s been too long since I read any Nancy Drew to remember if they’re all written that way.
I feel like this book was written because someone was bored with the same old mystery stories and had an itch for some pulp science fiction. It’s such a strange mash-up and not at all what you’d expect. It starts out normally enough - Nancy & Friends are off to explore a mountain on another whirlwind adventure! They’ve got packhorses, they meet a mountain man by the name of Old Joe (who has his own mystery for them to solve), and a Shawnee Native American named Shoso who is probably a little too much of a stereotype. Then we learn about a swamp, a flying saucer, and acidic dirt that eats through leather. Nancy and boyfriend Ned get high as fucking kites on swamp gas and pass out to have hallucinogenic dreams of flying away to unknown planets, communicating telepathically, and having weird bird feet. To wrap, we find out that Old Joe and Shoso are actually brothers! And the US Air Force comes to reclaim the UFO, which is apparently a craft of their own design (there were some questions about whether it was another country’s craft come to spy on us - but ha! What other country could possibly be more technologically advanced than the good ole US of A?).
The only other thing I’ll add about this book is that ‘plump’ Bess is a girl after my own heart, and George can go eat a bag of dicks for being such a fat-shaming jerk.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 7, 2019
This is the worse Nancy Drew I’ve ever read and I’ve read them all
October 22, 2019
Wow what a weird mystery. I mean, I shouldn't be shocked since it's called the Flying Saucer Mystery and you can't really have a "normal" story about UFOs, but I really wasn't expecting the acid-trip dream Nancy had where she had bird feet and mechanical wings. Yeah I can't believe I just wrote that sentence either. Also, Nancy doesn't keep this mystery to herself. She literally brings in doctors, scientists, and the US Air Force. That poor mountain isn't untrampled and peaceful now that Nancy has exposed it to the whole world. As usual we discover the sleuths have some convenient skills (George and Burt are mushroom experts), there's stereotypes and insensitive treatment of Native Americans, and Nancy casually pets a wildcat. I loved that Bess stood up against George's fat-shaming with some sass, and I believe this is the first time the Dana Girls are referenced, which was a fun Easter egg. I think this is also either the first or one of very few mysteries that doesn't have a villain. It was just a lot of weird stuff happening all at once apparently. The one thing I didn't like (because all of the above just comes with Nancy Drew territory and you have to either love it or leave it) was the lack of closure about the forest fire. Did the lumberjacks start it? Was it an accident? What even happened to the lumberjacks? Why couldn't they follow simple instructions? Why did no one follow up on that whole situation? I need answers.
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July 14, 2022Undoubtedly the most unhinged Nancy Drew book. What the fuck
June 24, 2025
Very X Files, I liked it!
August 10, 2014
This one makes me mad because by the end you have so many questions and none of them get answered because it's 'classified government information'. And Nancy is just like ". . .Okay!" Come on, Nancy wouldn't stop until she found out the answers, especially after all the weird stuff that happened to her. It's frustrating.
June 14, 2014
It actually was not that enjoyable of a story. The story contained "Dallas" dream sequences, and the ending left so much to be desired, and did not even come close to answering all the questions that the book raised. I love Nancy Drew books, but this one left much to be desired.
May 25, 2019
Not really one of the better Nancy Drew books, but the quirky premise earns it 4 stars.
December 6, 2021
A little dated and odd to be honest, but its for a younger audience from a different time, so okay I guess. A lot of talk about Native Americans and horses for a book about aliens and treasure.
The constant harassment of Bess being “fat” was just odd. She wasn’t described as being anything more than plump but every dialog is just her talking about food or them remarking on it. At least in the first half.
Joe and the Indian turn out to be related! The greatest treasure of all, family. The UFO turned out to be military tech. Also Nancy’s dad is here, via helicopter, and knows the air force men.
This book just feels kind of like it’s not up to the usual standards… people go from place to place very quickly and entire scenes are resolved very quickly it seems very by the book in a bad way.
The constant harassment of Bess being “fat” was just odd. She wasn’t described as being anything more than plump but every dialog is just her talking about food or them remarking on it. At least in the first half.
Joe and the Indian turn out to be related! The greatest treasure of all, family. The UFO turned out to be military tech. Also Nancy’s dad is here, via helicopter, and knows the air force men.
This book just feels kind of like it’s not up to the usual standards… people go from place to place very quickly and entire scenes are resolved very quickly it seems very by the book in a bad way.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 29, 2017
Nancy Drew and her friends (Bess, George, Ned, Dave, and Burt) go camping in a forest where a UFO has been spotted. The friends are looking to solve the mystery by locating the flying sauce, learning something about it, and finding out where it came from.
This Nancy Drew book was a bit different than the others I've read. Not a favorite of mine, but still an entertaining story.
This Nancy Drew book was a bit different than the others I've read. Not a favorite of mine, but still an entertaining story.
August 22, 2023
Really surprised. Definitely the worst Nancy Drew I have ever read. Nancy was not very smart and there was terrible filler writing. Such an odd book. Felt like poor Nancy Drew fanfiction. It also read like it was written for younger readers. More on par with Boxcar Children, which I love but I know what I'm getting when I read them. Nancy Drew doesn't normally read that way.
March 2, 2021
2 stars & 2/10 hearts. So, I loved Shoso and his storyline (and his brother’s). That was very interesting and sweet. It’s actually the only thing that’s rounding this to two stars. As for the rest, I was disgusted—in the eye-roll type of way. First off, what’s up with throwing out all that alien stuff and the whole travel in space and then playing it off as Nancy's dream? That’s just a palpable excuse for the chance to speculate with the popular alien stuff. I almost ditched the book right then because it was so creepy. Secondly, it took FOREVER for them to prove it wasn’t aliens and they never even really touched the topic, just showed what the ship was. And by the way that story was also just ridiculous. I don’t think it’s even realistic, seeing what the U.S. government was TRYING to do about UFOs at the time… getting people NOT worried about it. Leaving a UFO to travel all over the States to freak people out sounds like a great way to do that, right? Anyways. Yes, this is a rant. And yes, I’m taking a break from Nancy now. I hope the other 70s and 80s books aren’t this lame. I’ll come back to them later, when I’ve kind of forgotten how much better the 60s books are.
January 21, 2022
This is probably the worst Nancy Drew Mystery Story I've read. It's extremely far-fetched and the pacing is excruciatingly slow. A wildcat, a snake, another snake, and a tumble off a cliff, along with multiple horse disappearances are all added to try to keep up interest because Nancy doesn't actually investigate the UFO she's supposed to be investigating.
April 4, 2022
I say this with my entire chest…. What did I just read
November 26, 2024
Genuinely horrible. A disgrace to the name Nancy Drew.
December 12, 2021
This was the best of the Nancy Drew mysteries I have read! Outdoor adventure with flying saucers & a Native American character!
April 7, 2024
This was a weird one. I don't think I'm a fan of sci-fi in my Nancy Drews.
Would recommend this one be skipped by anyone who isn't a completist. (Un?)fortunately, I'm a completist!
The stuff with Old Joe and his dog was the best part of this book.
Edited to add: Two odd references in this book to the Dana Girls, one of the other Stratemeyer Syndicate-written series, written by "Carolyn Keene." The only reference to the Dana Girls that I personally know of in Nancy Drew. I saw that the last Dana Girls book was published the year before this book. Was the reference a last-ditch effort to rejuvenate the Dana Girls series?
Would recommend this one be skipped by anyone who isn't a completist. (Un?)fortunately, I'm a completist!
The stuff with Old Joe and his dog was the best part of this book.
Edited to add: Two odd references in this book to the Dana Girls, one of the other Stratemeyer Syndicate-written series, written by "Carolyn Keene." The only reference to the Dana Girls that I personally know of in Nancy Drew. I saw that the last Dana Girls book was published the year before this book. Was the reference a last-ditch effort to rejuvenate the Dana Girls series?
November 29, 2020
It was fun to read this while finishing up with Dickey's "The Unidentified."
Spoilers: the flying saucer is not alien, it's the government's! Sure.
There is new artwork, which is very different, but very 70s.
Nancy is sent to find out why the flying saucer is showing up again... although it's unclear if the sightings are all recent, or over the years?
Anyway, it's surprising how no one dies on this. The "experts" they travel with don't seem very smart about the area they are in.
But I enjoyed it. Mostly because everyone is an idiot. The boys forget to tie up the horses. Although why would you tie up horses and leave them while you hike far away. No horses are killed, so maybe the wildlife wanted harder prey?
Nancy and Ned decide to PET a "wildcat" (I'm going with bobcat based on the art) and no one is mauled.
The plot doesn't make a lot of sense. Nancy is asked by "Old" Joe to find out where his dad hid "treasure" 10 years ago. She, of course, finds very obvious clues that Joe, who has lived here for years, failed to notice (arrows on trees with his dad's initials, a freakin pyramid of rocks in a river?).
Then there is Shoso, a Native American, who haunts the forest. He throws nuts at Bess when she is hurt, for her to eat. It's funny.
He also, somehow, doesn't speak English, but there are no other tribe members around.
THEN you find out that Joe and Shoso are brothers. Their mother was Native American and Shoso was kidnapped by her tribe after she died. Because native tribes in the 1950s totally did this? And... then left Shoso on the mountain all by himself? I'm highly doubtful.
Still, it's fun. There are scientists and wind storms and runaway horses! The gang is forced to survive on the "foods" of the forest! It's hilarious.
Also, Nancy and Ned decide to spend the night near the flying saucer and have this weird dream that isn't described as a dream, so you're left thinking Nancy and Ned are kidnapped by aliens and given spacesuits and wings for a really long time. It's totally psychedelic, dude.
Mostly, I just love Trixie, Old Joe's dog. She is the savior of them all.
Spoilers: the flying saucer is not alien, it's the government's! Sure.
There is new artwork, which is very different, but very 70s.
Nancy is sent to find out why the flying saucer is showing up again... although it's unclear if the sightings are all recent, or over the years?
Anyway, it's surprising how no one dies on this. The "experts" they travel with don't seem very smart about the area they are in.
But I enjoyed it. Mostly because everyone is an idiot. The boys forget to tie up the horses. Although why would you tie up horses and leave them while you hike far away. No horses are killed, so maybe the wildlife wanted harder prey?
Nancy and Ned decide to PET a "wildcat" (I'm going with bobcat based on the art) and no one is mauled.
The plot doesn't make a lot of sense. Nancy is asked by "Old" Joe to find out where his dad hid "treasure" 10 years ago. She, of course, finds very obvious clues that Joe, who has lived here for years, failed to notice (arrows on trees with his dad's initials, a freakin pyramid of rocks in a river?).
Then there is Shoso, a Native American, who haunts the forest. He throws nuts at Bess when she is hurt, for her to eat. It's funny.
He also, somehow, doesn't speak English, but there are no other tribe members around.
THEN you find out that Joe and Shoso are brothers. Their mother was Native American and Shoso was kidnapped by her tribe after she died. Because native tribes in the 1950s totally did this? And... then left Shoso on the mountain all by himself? I'm highly doubtful.
Still, it's fun. There are scientists and wind storms and runaway horses! The gang is forced to survive on the "foods" of the forest! It's hilarious.
Also, Nancy and Ned decide to spend the night near the flying saucer and have this weird dream that isn't described as a dream, so you're left thinking Nancy and Ned are kidnapped by aliens and given spacesuits and wings for a really long time. It's totally psychedelic, dude.
Mostly, I just love Trixie, Old Joe's dog. She is the savior of them all.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 5, 2016
The Flying Saucer Mystery is about Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin (best friend), George Fayne (best friend), Ned Nickerson (boyfriend), Dave Evans (Bess's boyfriend),and Burt Evaanston (George's boyfriend).
Nancy and her friends are going on a camping trip to solve a mystery about a flying saucer.
Nancy and Ned have to go pick up cooking utensils from an area by a creek when they encounter a Wildcat. Nancy and Ned meet a man that calls himself Old Joe.
Old Joe tells Nancy about a mystery of his own. Old Joe's father apparently buried a sum of money to keep safe from the "enemy". Nancy is now searching for two things, a fortune and a flying saucer.
One day Nancy and Ned decide to go view the flying saucer after seeing it land. The fumes that are in the swamp knock out Nancy and Ned causing them to think different thoughts both good and bad.
Nancy and Ned try to bring back a soil sample but the soil is acidic and burns through the bag injuring Nancy's horse. Nancy and Ned are tested for Radioactivity and both come out negative.
In the end after fighting a forest fire Nancy and her friends are able to conceive Old Joe's estate and discover his brother is the Indian who has helped them many times. Nancy also learns that the flying saucer is a part of the United State's Military unit.
This book is very easy to read in one day and is easy to picture in your mind. It is kind of a "getaway" read for me so I can just relax.
-Jocelyn Kuntz
Nancy and her friends are going on a camping trip to solve a mystery about a flying saucer.
Nancy and Ned have to go pick up cooking utensils from an area by a creek when they encounter a Wildcat. Nancy and Ned meet a man that calls himself Old Joe.
Old Joe tells Nancy about a mystery of his own. Old Joe's father apparently buried a sum of money to keep safe from the "enemy". Nancy is now searching for two things, a fortune and a flying saucer.
One day Nancy and Ned decide to go view the flying saucer after seeing it land. The fumes that are in the swamp knock out Nancy and Ned causing them to think different thoughts both good and bad.
Nancy and Ned try to bring back a soil sample but the soil is acidic and burns through the bag injuring Nancy's horse. Nancy and Ned are tested for Radioactivity and both come out negative.
In the end after fighting a forest fire Nancy and her friends are able to conceive Old Joe's estate and discover his brother is the Indian who has helped them many times. Nancy also learns that the flying saucer is a part of the United State's Military unit.
This book is very easy to read in one day and is easy to picture in your mind. It is kind of a "getaway" read for me so I can just relax.
-Jocelyn Kuntz
May 9, 2021
Until I read this book I thought the strangest Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew title was the Hardys #36 the Phantom Freighter, but The Flying Saucer Mystery makes that Hardys tale seem normal! You can tell this book, published in 1980, is a product the 1970s when hallugencic drugs and UFOs were all the craze! An element of the base story actually is interesting-- Nancy and her friends help out an old hermit whose father had buried a small treasure in the woods for him years below and it had gotten lost. But the rest of the story is simply bizarre. A "UFO" has appeared in the woods with strange ground conditions. Nancy and her boyfriend have a mesmeric dream that they are in the UFO. There is an isolated Indian who doesn't speak English, its all a bit much even for great fans of Nancy Drew and the Hardys like I am. In the end of course the "UFO" is some government secret aircraft and even that aspect of the story isn't well done. Having said all this the book itself is top quality for a paperback-- my 40 year old copy showed crisp pages and tight binding sadly not seen in the later paperbacks. The cover and interior pencil sketches are well done. But read this book because you are committed to the series, and maybe want to experience some 70s culture, not because this is a particularly good story!
June 2, 2012
It was nostaligic for me, reading this book with Torin, not that I remember this particular Nancy Drew mystery, but I read them ALL! (I much preferred the ones where she was in a spooky old house, pressing on walls to find a secret passageway.)
Oh well, one thing about this book...we read my old copy straight from Lisbon Community School, with checkout signatures of Stacee Munson, Jill Reiling, and Heather Caspers! What a hoot. :-)
Oh well, one thing about this book...we read my old copy straight from Lisbon Community School, with checkout signatures of Stacee Munson, Jill Reiling, and Heather Caspers! What a hoot. :-)
July 14, 2018
I am a diehard fan of the classic Nancy Drew series #1-56. I thought there were a few duds in that series-but that the good ones far outweighed the bad. This one???? OMG! I had a hard enough time getting into the story as it was...then came the scene where Nancy and Ned got “picked up” by the spaceship...followed by the super lame conclusion.
Don’t waste your time!!!
Don’t waste your time!!!
December 3, 2016
The first Nancy Drew novel I read, and dearest one to me.
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February 2, 2020
Good, but the series is starting to feel a little thin.
May 21, 2022
This is the trippiest Nancy Drew book I’ve ever read, and for that reason alone it gets 4 stars.
But, who are the Dana Girls?
But, who are the Dana Girls?
April 2, 2020
I want some of whatever the writers of this were on. So Nancy and her friends head into the woods to investigate a flying saucer. There's no real introduction to the main characters in this book - we're 58 books into the Nancy Drew series so it's pretty much assumed we know who everyone is. Nancy has red hair, George is slim and Bess is not slim. The boys are....also there.....and that's pretty much it.
The real meat of this story comes about when the whirling flying saucer creates a cyclone that destroys their picnic and lands in a hallucinogenic swamp. Yep. This is the book where Nancy and Ned hallucinate they are on another planet, telepathic and part bird. It's never explained exactly why this happened. Though perhaps it has something to do with the 'highly concentrated acid' produced by this gassy swamp.
We never do get an explanation for how Old Joe's father knew the lost flying saucer was going to return in 10 years....other than 'I guess he was psychic!'. Or how the flying saucer got lost. Or how it stayed lost for so long....did no one notice a cyclone-causing UFO spinning round the USA? In fact we don't really get an explanation for much. But Nancy and her friends get a ride on a new flying machine so I guess everything is resolved.
There's also the side plot of Old Joe and his family mystery - which is solved by this group of teenagers stumbling about a forest for a couple of days rather than the experienced woodsman who has spent 10 years of his life trying to figure it out. This family secret resolves in a character finding out he is part Native American (that is NOT what they're calling it in this book though) and that his father hid this from him as a shameful secret AND includes a Native American character who doesn't speak English and communicates through charades. So yeah....this book is trippy AND racist.
Special mentions to
Ned - whose reaction to a guy introducing himself as 'Old Joe' is to demand his full name. Ned, you are a teenager on a horse in the woods at night who has just been rescued from a wild animal, why do you need to know people's government names?
Bess - who needs to find some better friends.
Shoso - whose side of the story would have been much more interesting and would be the book I'd actually want to read.
The real meat of this story comes about when the whirling flying saucer creates a cyclone that destroys their picnic and lands in a hallucinogenic swamp. Yep. This is the book where Nancy and Ned hallucinate they are on another planet, telepathic and part bird. It's never explained exactly why this happened. Though perhaps it has something to do with the 'highly concentrated acid' produced by this gassy swamp.
We never do get an explanation for how Old Joe's father knew the lost flying saucer was going to return in 10 years....other than 'I guess he was psychic!'. Or how the flying saucer got lost. Or how it stayed lost for so long....did no one notice a cyclone-causing UFO spinning round the USA? In fact we don't really get an explanation for much. But Nancy and her friends get a ride on a new flying machine so I guess everything is resolved.
There's also the side plot of Old Joe and his family mystery - which is solved by this group of teenagers stumbling about a forest for a couple of days rather than the experienced woodsman who has spent 10 years of his life trying to figure it out. This family secret resolves in a character finding out he is part Native American (that is NOT what they're calling it in this book though) and that his father hid this from him as a shameful secret AND includes a Native American character who doesn't speak English and communicates through charades. So yeah....this book is trippy AND racist.
Special mentions to
Ned - whose reaction to a guy introducing himself as 'Old Joe' is to demand his full name. Ned, you are a teenager on a horse in the woods at night who has just been rescued from a wild animal, why do you need to know people's government names?
Bess - who needs to find some better friends.
Shoso - whose side of the story would have been much more interesting and would be the book I'd actually want to read.
April 18, 2021
My husbands comment: "Seems like it was written by someone on drugs!" To me this is the worst NDMS (of the 1-175). It's well-written as far as syntax, vocabulary, flow, etc., and Ruth Sanderson's cover and internals are great as always. After the mid-1970s, the NDMS authored or revised by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams include more absurd elements (rather like a band struggling to remain relevant as musical styles change).
While I don't expect realism in these books, I expect realism within the world in which they are set and this one is overflowing with head-shaking incidents and more drama than usual as was The Triple Hoax:
While I don't expect realism in these books, I expect realism within the world in which they are set and this one is overflowing with head-shaking incidents and more drama than usual as was The Triple Hoax:
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