This is the last Nancy Drew book in what is considered the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. Nancy and her friends have adventurous fun solving the two mysteries. In a second mystery, Carson Drew contacts his daughter for helping recovering a missing film. While on their European tour, they discover their professor tour guide is trying to rescue some refugee children. The first 56 books w Nancy Drew and her friends (Bess, George, Ned, Dave, and Burt) all go to Europe on a student trip.
Nancy Drew and her friends (Bess, George, Ned, Dave, and Burt) all go to Europe on a student trip. I won’t spoil the surprise ending and let you keep wondering if Nancy solves the usual two mysteries per book.
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(The series is ghost written using that name so I guess one more mystery would be who really wrote it.) No matter they are in Austria the usual cast is there with here including Ned who is of course still a freshman at Emerson. The Captive Witness is typical Nancy with the addition of complicated travel since after so many similar stories they Ms Keene has used up most of the available American settings. In the first Nancy Drew mystery, The Secret of the Old Clock, on page one we read “Nancy Drew, an attractive girl of eighteen, was driving home along a country road in her new, dark-blue convertible.” When we get to mystery number 64, Captive Witness, we see on page two “As he had so often done, Carson Drew was calling on the detective skills of his eighteen-year old daughter on behalf of one of his legal clients.” In the first Nancy Drew mystery, The Secret of the Old Clock, on page one we read “Nancy Drew, an attractive girl of eighteen, was driving home along a country road in her new, dark-blue convertible.” When we get to mystery number 64, Captive Witness, we see on page two “As he had so often done, Carson Drew was calling on the detective skills of his eighteen-year old daughter on behalf of one o The real mystery Nancy Drew has solved is the mystery of aging and she never even takes credit for it.
The real mystery Nancy Drew has solved is the mystery of aging and she never even takes credit for it. Subtracting for the fact that I'm definitely not the target demographic any more and I roll my eyes at some of the dumb risks taken and the amount of amazingly proficient skills Nancy has, I do recommend it as a very exciting and suspenseful read!. Set on the border of the Iron Curtain and making mention of some hefty concepts, it feels like one of a kind in the Nancy Drew universe. Not a mystery, more of a thriller, with some very real, very sobering, very high stakes. It's Nancy's most extravagant adventure ever. Re-read it as a 35-year-old, and I stand by my opinion. Subtracting for the fact that I'm definitely not the target demographic any more and I roll my eyes at some I read this as a teen and thought it was THE BEST Nancy Drew Ever. I read this as a teen and thought it was THE BEST Nancy Drew Ever.
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