The Stolen Torah Mystery
Nancy goes undercover in New
York's close-knit Hasidic Jewish community to search for a stolen religious
artifact. While eating a bowl of matzohball soup, Bess discovers
an antique dreidel inscribed with a clue. The thrilling denouement
occurs in a crowded synagogue where Nancy, disguised as a Hasidic rabbi,
exposes a jewel-thief among the congregation.
The Secret of the Burning Cross
A pleasure trip to Alabama is interrupted
by death threats against Carson Drew's friend, a state prosecutor with
a record number of death-penalty convictions. Abducted during a late-night
coon-hunt, Nancy escapes from her captors by disguising herself in a white
sheet and mask during one of their eerie torchlit ceremonies. After
solving the mystery, Nancy and Ned perform an amusing vaudeville routine
in blackface at the Spring Cotillion.
The Clue in the Carcass
Nancy and her friends take a working
vacation on board one of Japan's largest commercial whaling ships.
They learn the skills and history behind this ancient occupation, while
simultaneously searching for a shipment of radioactive waste lost at sea.
Humor abounds as Bess encounters whale blubber in the ship's mess and George
mistakenly harpoons a Greenpeace protestor. Nancy surprises her chums
by displaying the flensing skills she acquired at a community workshop
in River Heights.
The Quest for the Missing Roadmap
The world of interstate trucking comes
alive for Nancy and her friends as they roll out the big rigs to search
for a missing will. Upon graduation from the Ace Truck Driving School
in River Heights, Nancy, with Bess and George in tow, sets out to deliver
a load of swine flu vaccine to a hospital in Oregon. On their way,
they search for the will of a fellow student's grandfather, which was written
on the back of a road atlas. After restoring her friend's inheritance,
Nancy (who earns the C.B. "handle""Supersleuth"), leads a convoy of milk
trucks to the local orphanage.
The Message in the Sourcecode
When an insidious e-mail virus crashes
Carson Drew's computer hard drive, Nancy sets out on the trail of the culprit.
On the "superhighway" to the virus creator, Nancy fends off would-be Romeos
in chat rooms, learns to weed out junk results on search engines, and is
menaced by Microsoft thugs who lock her into a "clean" room at a microchip
production facility. The ingenious sleuth escapes by converting a
message for help into a string of ones and zeroes that can only be understood
by the nerdy cyberfriends she has made on AOL. Meanwhile, Bess
finds love on-line, and George's name and boyish slang lead to an amusing
romantic mis-adventure via email. After the villain is caught, everyone
has a good laugh as Ned and Nancy discover that they've been e-chatting
with each other anonymously for weeks |