Carolyn Keene

Nancy Drew and her friend Helen can’t swim, but their rowboat capsizes in the lake when a sudden storm strikes. Thankfully, Laura Pendleton, an orphaned girl new to the area, was there to save them. The new friendship of the three girls is lucky for...

The Bungalow Mystery, originally published in 1930, is the third of the acclaimed series featuring teenage amateur sleuth Nancy Drew. By 2000, in its various editions, it had sold 1.5 million copies in the U.S. market.This version—the original—begins...

A PerilousRescue.A Baffling Secret.A sudden storm on the lake leads Nancy Drew and her friend Helen into an adventure filled with danger, intrigue, and a baffling mystery!When the girls' boat capsizes, they are rescued by a young girl whose own...

The Hidden Staircase, published in 1930, was the second in a long line of the acclaimed Nancy Drew mysteries. The author is the pseudonymous Carolyn Keene, but this and other early novels in the series were written by Mildred Wirt Benson, who said The...

The Turnbull sisters need help: things keep going missing from their stone mansion, and they’re haunted by strange noises and shadows. While her father Carson is out of town, Nancy Drew goes to stay with the sisters to see if she can help solve the...

A friend of Nancy Drew’s hopes to use her sleuthing skills to solve what seems to be a strange haunting at her aunt’s house! Hearing strange creaking, eerie thumps, and even music, the secretive mansion seems to be hiding something sinister. At the...

They know the house can’t be haunted… or can it?What is going on at an old mansion? Shadows appear, music plays, and odd noises keep two older women on edge until they decide there’s only one solution. Nancy Drew must come and discover what is going...

Nancy Drew’s friend Emily Crandall has lost her family jewels. They were stolen at Lilac Inn, and it’s up to Nancy to find the evil crook who took them and return the heirlooms to Emily. But the world’s favorite teen detective never has it easy; on...

Nancy Drew travels to Lilac Inn, now owned by her friend, Emily. As they prepare for Emily’s wedding and work on fixing up the old inn, they discover that someone has stolen poor Emily’s identity and her diamonds! If that wasn’t enough, there’s also a...

The Mystery of Lilac Inn, first published in 1930, is the fourth in the famed Nancy Drew mystery series.In this thrilling novel, Nancy follows the fate of a set of extremely valuable jewels of which her impoverished friend Emily Crandall has come into...

The Secret at Shadow Ranch, published in 1931, was the fifth in the acclaimed line of Nancy Drew mysteries. Publishers Weekly has ranked it as the fiftieth best-selling children’s book of all time, with over 2.3 million in sales.In this book, Nancy is...

In this, the sixth in the acclaimed Nancy Drew mystery series, published in 1931, Nancy befriends the hapless Millie and helps her save her grandmother’s farm. In the process, Nancy confronts a ring of gangsters and a strange nature cult that meets on...

The Secret of the Old Clock, published in 1930, marked the debut of the classic line of Nancy Drew mysteries. It led to an initial series of 64 novels in all, in which the ever-teenage Nancy solves over 500 mysteries.In this book, sixteen-year-old...

Teenage Nancy Drew has always been intrigued by her father’s cases and the mysteries woven within. Now, after a chance meeting with a girl in need, she has the opportunity to solve her own mystery! When a kind and wealthy man leaves a will giving his...

According to the last will and testament of Josiah Crowley, his fortune should go to his relatives, the Turners—but the will is missing. The very first in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, The Secret of the Old Clock shows Nancy fighting to help the...

The Secret of the Old Clock, written by Carolyn Keene and narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano & The Rebellion, is a captivating classic mystery that introduced generations of readers to Nancy Drew, the courageous, intelligent, and resourceful young...

She’s determined to find something that may not even exist!When a missing will threatens to leave several people without their expected inheritances, Nancy Drew embarks on her first case. But the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes—someone wants...