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The Secret of the Forgotten City (Nancy Drew #52)
For cliff-hanging suspense and thrilling action read THE NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES® - the world's most popular mystery series for young readers! Millions of fans have matched wits with Nancy Drew, helping her solve more than fifty baffling cases - from THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK to the haunting mystery of THE THIRTEENTH PEARL. Join the fun! Start your collection of origi...more
Hardcover, 180 pages
Published
January 1st 1993
by Grosset & Dunlap
(first published January 1st 1975)
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Nancy and her friends plan to join a dig sponsored by two colleges to hunt for the gold . Before she starts , the young sleuth receives an ancient stone tablet with petroglyphs on it . With this amazing clue , however , come a threat and danger from a thief who also wants the treasure .
One harrowing adventure after another besets Nancy , Bess , George , Ned , Burt , and Dave in 102 degree temperatures as they pursue Nancy's hunches above and below ground . They are assisted by a fine Indian w...more
One harrowing adventure after another besets Nancy , Bess , George , Ned , Burt , and Dave in 102 degree temperatures as they pursue Nancy's hunches above and below ground . They are assisted by a fine Indian w...more
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This book was so exiciting! It started out good and just got better and better. The young sleuth is back in the 52nd mystery of the series. Nancy and her friends Ned Nickerson, Bess Marvin, and George Fayne go on a dig in the Nevada desert to slove the mystery of the forgotten city. Before they leave they meet Mrs. Walbash, she had tablets that had petroglyphs on them that told a story of were GOLD was in the nevada desert were they were going on the dig. But before she could show them to Nancy...more
Keene, Carolyn
I’ve been a huge Nancy Drew fan since I was little. I always wanted to be like her. She was so brave and smart, and she had the coolest powder blue Mustang convertible (a car that I now have, minus the convertible part.) Every now and then I like to take a trip down memory lane and read a Nancy Drew Mystery.
In this installment of the series, Nancy and her friends head out to Nevada to do a little digging. While they try to recover some ancient Native American artifacts, they’re also trying to hu...more
In this installment of the series, Nancy and her friends head out to Nevada to do a little digging. While they try to recover some ancient Native American artifacts, they’re also trying to hu...more
Nancy Drew was better when I was a kid.
Never noticed that they were so mean to Bess. "Watch out how much you eat, cousin. You'll get fat!" That's not nice. And this one had a scene where they drove off the Mexicans. At least Nancy was horrified by that.
Also never noticed how unrealistic the story lines are. Still, they're fun. I'd read another as an adult.
Never noticed that they were so mean to Bess. "Watch out how much you eat, cousin. You'll get fat!" That's not nice. And this one had a scene where they drove off the Mexicans. At least Nancy was horrified by that.
Also never noticed how unrealistic the story lines are. Still, they're fun. I'd read another as an adult.
I can't wait until my girls have outgrown their Nancy Drew kick! I think they are a great read for younger tween girls but I am way past that demographic and bored to tears by yet another Nancy Drew mystery.
A decent Nancy Drew, it follows the pattern of many others. There's danger, and Nancy and crew miraculously come out unscathed and Nancy is always the best at everything at the end of the day.
Jul 31, 2011
Erin Maynard
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My absolute favorite Nancy Drew EVER. I distinctly remember trying to make my own clay tablet after reading this one, and this might be responsible for my love of archaeology.
I absolutely adored these growing up, much more so than the Hardy Boys, and still carry a fondness for them into adulthood
Nancy is on the search for some long-lost golden tablets that can be found by following some stone tablets.
I think this is the first ND book i ever read. This one got me hooked on all the rest.
Pretty good... Caught my attention when I opened the cover to the first page!
I really liked it because it was a very hard to explain book and mysterious!
From "Books I have read this summer" list that I found at home in NJ.
It wasn't as exciting as the other Nancy Drew books.
This was awesome! Readdddddddddd itttt!
just another guilty pleasure. :)
100 stars
Peppo read this to me.
Peppo read this to me.
o.k the ending was weird though
book 52
Sep 28, 2011
Sairi Jimenez
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amazing
I didn't really like it.
this is my mystery
Another fairly predictable mystery story, with quite a lot of information about the desert of southwestern America. Although somewhat dated, there is a bit of a picture of Las Vegas.
This book was excellent! Carolyn Keene did well, as usual!
Really good!!!!!!!
This wasn't the best Nancy Drew book but it was still good enough that I could read the whole book.
This book is okay!
I'm pretty sure that Ned actually proposed in this one...
Really liked the parts about talking in code.
Really liked the parts about talking in code.
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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 Str...more
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