Serial Sabotage

Nancy Drew: Girl Detective #43

by Carolyn Keene

When the cash box is stolen from the local carnival, all signs point to Ned as the thief. He couldn’t possibly have done this—or could he? But, as with all of Nancy’s cases, this goes much deeper than a few missing bucks as she uncovers a plot involving financial mismanagement and finger-pointing. Nancy manages to solve the mystery of the missing cash, but uncovers more trouble along the way. Read on in book #44 for the stunning conclusion to the Sabotage Mystery Trilogy!

Genres: Mystery, Childrens, Young Adult, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 29, 2010

About the author

Carolyn 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 In a few cases, outdated plots were completely rewritten.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.

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 1 out of 5]

The only mystery in this one is why Hannah is suddenly referred to as Mrs. Gruen.

[Alisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was really good and very interesting in the carnival and stuff don't know who took the stuff but I think the author did good right next book and I recommend any of you to read this book it's really good Nancy Drew is really good

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why are all the characters acting so weird in this one?

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cool.

[Water Viper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to reread

[Hana 4ever · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love this awesome mystery book. it was very fascinating as the mystery rises and enthusiasm increases. it was about a girl called Lexi who has figured out a burn book called hatethesegirls.com. In this site there are horrible secrets about Lexi revealed and a count down for the river heights celebration where she will be announced as the river heights daughter. Nancy drew was asked to help Lexi with her mystery... Something else was unexpected, there were notes that kept being sent to lexi threatening her not to join the celebration or else she will be sorry. Nancy figures out who is the author of this site, but to her surprise it wasn't the same person who wrote these notes., but will figure out in serial sabotage.

[Helen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lexi, the to-be DRH of River Heights High School, needs Nancy's help. There has been a horrible website called hatethesegirls.com and they are making fun of Lexi. It becomes much more serious when Lexi starts getting threatening notes, and a rock is thrown through the window at the girls' sleepover. Now Nancy needs to solve the mystery before the DRH parade.

I picked up this book because there was nothing else good in the library.

I finished it because I wanted to find out who created the website and wrote the notes.

I would reccommend it to anyone who enjoys reading mysteries.

[Whisper Poet · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the second book in a trilogy. Someone is trying to sabotage the River Heights carnival, and Nancy and her friends are out to solve the mystery. This book seems to pick up on the second day of the festival, and leaves the mystery unsolved for the last book.

While the mystery did pull me along to finish this book, the writing is unbelievable in the language used and the situations. It felt like an attempt to capture a 1950s-type small town.

Part of me wants to find the last book to know the outcome, but the other part wants to save myself from the inferior writing!

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was happier with this book than I was with the first in the trilogy. It look on a plot of its own instead of being pretty much a copy of the previous trilogy. The dialog did get a little strange sounding at times, but I still enjoyed the book and am looking forward to the resolution of the mystery in book three!

[Karisti Severt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unsolvable-Handfed. It got points off it's score for being overly dramatic 'it girl' and not being faithful to who Nancy is. However this book was better than the first one. 56/100 with 6 points of BS.

[Hannahl · Rating 5 out of 5]

leaves me to want to read the next book