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Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys: Super Mystery #35
Operation Titanic
Together with Bess, Nancy Drew is on a cruise to adventure-- a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the raising of the Titanic. But she has uncovered evidence that their ship may be under threat-- from a rogue CIA agent! As they follow the Titanic's fateful course into the icy waters of the Northern Atlantic, Nancy suspects that they too are on a voyage to disaster. Meanwhile...
A helicopter swoops down onto the deck of Nancy's ship. On board are Frank and Joe Hardy! Posing as journalists, they are in fact working undercover for the Network, the ultrasecret U.S. intelligence agency. Their mission: Unmask a master of disguise who is planning to use the ship to pull off a chilling terrorist act. For Nancy Drew and the Hardys, uncovering the explosive truth about what lies a the bottom of the ocean is just the tip of the iceberg in... "Operation Titanic."
A helicopter swoops down onto the deck of Nancy's ship. On board are Frank and Joe Hardy! Posing as journalists, they are in fact working undercover for the Network, the ultrasecret U.S. intelligence agency. Their mission: Unmask a master of disguise who is planning to use the ship to pull off a chilling terrorist act. For Nancy Drew and the Hardys, uncovering the explosive truth about what lies a the bottom of the ocean is just the tip of the iceberg in... "Operation Titanic."
215 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1998
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Carolyn Keene
1,000 books3,866 followersCarolyn 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.
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.
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October 1, 2022
This book is a failure of the promise of the premise, i.e. that it is a TEAM UP. The characters aren't even in the sample place until the last 20% of the book and then they still barely interact!
Also, I just noticed it really after I started the last one in the series, but wow does George get phased out over the course of the series. She's in the weird balkans one for about five seconds, but I know she featured more prominently in earlier books. Interesting choice!
LAST BOOK, HERE I COME!!!
Also, I just noticed it really after I started the last one in the series, but wow does George get phased out over the course of the series. She's in the weird balkans one for about five seconds, but I know she featured more prominently in earlier books. Interesting choice!
LAST BOOK, HERE I COME!!!
May 25, 2020
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Found this book owned by my sister from 1998. I was in the mood for some mystery reads. Nancy Drew (+ Hardy Boys) happened to be waiting for me.
This was a fun, quick and chill read. Could finish overnight (if not for my busy Eid preparation).
A little confusing in the beginning - didn't know exactly what they're investigating but it only got better from there. Overall, a promising plot with a fun group of characters.
Found this book owned by my sister from 1998. I was in the mood for some mystery reads. Nancy Drew (+ Hardy Boys) happened to be waiting for me.
This was a fun, quick and chill read. Could finish overnight (if not for my busy Eid preparation).
A little confusing in the beginning - didn't know exactly what they're investigating but it only got better from there. Overall, a promising plot with a fun group of characters.
April 3, 2016
This is probably my favorite book from either the Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys series... and it has all our favorite teenage mystery-solvers, now grown into adult detectives on the job.
The big feature of the book is that millionaire Walter Welsch is going to break history and retrieve part of the Titanic shipwreck from its cold Atlantic grave. (Great excitement!) I was surprised that Nancy didn't get to meet up with the Hardys until quite late in the book -- but that's just because they were working on two different angles of the story. There's a lot of secrets and schemes surrounding the news of the raising of the Titanic, and who knows what other mysteries these friends will discover and attempt to solve?
I liked how "grown up" Nancy and the Hardy brothers seem now in this book -- perhaps it's how all of the "Super Mysteries" are. Definitely, they're on the "next level" of detectiving than they were in the vintage series -- which will keep older teens and adults interested in the plot. Reads like a real mystery novel that could stand alone.
Overall? This mystery had me hooked. If I stumble across any other of these "Super Mysteries", I'll definitely read them.
The big feature of the book is that millionaire Walter Welsch is going to break history and retrieve part of the Titanic shipwreck from its cold Atlantic grave. (Great excitement!) I was surprised that Nancy didn't get to meet up with the Hardys until quite late in the book -- but that's just because they were working on two different angles of the story. There's a lot of secrets and schemes surrounding the news of the raising of the Titanic, and who knows what other mysteries these friends will discover and attempt to solve?
I liked how "grown up" Nancy and the Hardy brothers seem now in this book -- perhaps it's how all of the "Super Mysteries" are. Definitely, they're on the "next level" of detectiving than they were in the vintage series -- which will keep older teens and adults interested in the plot. Reads like a real mystery novel that could stand alone.
Overall? This mystery had me hooked. If I stumble across any other of these "Super Mysteries", I'll definitely read them.
July 14, 2021
Admittedly, I have not read Nancy Drew since I was in my teens, have never read the Hardy Boys and only bought this because of the Titanic connection.
But this was actually quite disappointing. You had alternating chapters between Nancy and the two “boys” (it was quite weird to see them driving and being adults) and because this is obviously part of a long-running series, you do get landed almost in the middle of a storyline.
Nancy is more grown up from when I read her back in the good ol’ days and although I didn’t remember much, I smiled fondly when Ned Nickerson got mentioned. But the storyline was just too convoluted. You had two seemingly not interconnected storylines, between the three lead characters and just as you were starting to get the thread of one storyline, you skipped off to another character. And then nuclear weapons were brought into it.
And as for the Titanic, it was barely mentioned. There was the odd passing mention and the blurb indicates that it’s all about a cruise to revisit the Titanic’s course - pah, the last quarter of the book barely covers this. I was expecting some lead up, but the ending of the storyline just felt rushed, as if the “author” didn’t know where to go with the storyline. And I did lose track of who was who at one point.
I do want to go back and revisit some of the old Nancy Drew stories, I think I preferred the older storylines, which weren’t quite so modern. Perhaps If they were fresher in my memory, or if I’d known more about the Hardy Boys, I would have enjoyed this more. Unfortunately, this wasn’t for me.
But this was actually quite disappointing. You had alternating chapters between Nancy and the two “boys” (it was quite weird to see them driving and being adults) and because this is obviously part of a long-running series, you do get landed almost in the middle of a storyline.
Nancy is more grown up from when I read her back in the good ol’ days and although I didn’t remember much, I smiled fondly when Ned Nickerson got mentioned. But the storyline was just too convoluted. You had two seemingly not interconnected storylines, between the three lead characters and just as you were starting to get the thread of one storyline, you skipped off to another character. And then nuclear weapons were brought into it.
And as for the Titanic, it was barely mentioned. There was the odd passing mention and the blurb indicates that it’s all about a cruise to revisit the Titanic’s course - pah, the last quarter of the book barely covers this. I was expecting some lead up, but the ending of the storyline just felt rushed, as if the “author” didn’t know where to go with the storyline. And I did lose track of who was who at one point.
I do want to go back and revisit some of the old Nancy Drew stories, I think I preferred the older storylines, which weren’t quite so modern. Perhaps If they were fresher in my memory, or if I’d known more about the Hardy Boys, I would have enjoyed this more. Unfortunately, this wasn’t for me.
June 27, 2020
I realize now that when you raise the stakes of the mystery beyond local petty thievery (to missing nuclear bombs!), it becomes more and more ludicrous to entertain the idea that a bunch of high school punks would be involved in solving anything remotely close to this caliber of crimes. That aside, this book sucked. They don't even get on the cruise until 3/4 into the book, and the two pairs/parallel mysteries meet up in a completely haphazard way. And it has nothing to do with the Titanic! Bah!
April 24, 2025
This was disappointing. I enjoy the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries because of their interactions as they try to solve cases together. They don't even meet up in this book until the last 30%. Also, the back synopsis made it seem like the main gist of the book is a cruise to watch the raising of the Titanic, but that also doesn't happen until the last quarter of the book. All in all, an alright book but not a great addition to the series.
September 15, 2018
Fun quick read with good action, though I found the plot complicated, situations and encounters unrealistic and poorly executed, and some things awkwardly handled. (However I did read the majority of this while traveling and battling jet lag, so this should be taken with a grain of salt.)
January 24, 2020
Good mystery
September 18, 2025
I always love a good Nancy/Hardy boys team-up and my only complaint about this one is that they're not in the same place until the final quarter of the story which is sad
June 22, 2014
Book #56 Read in 2014
Operation Titanic by Carolyn Keene
This book is a combination Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys book. In this installment, the Titanic is going to be raised and there is a big media hoopla over that. Nancy is at the gala and is trying to catch a thief. In a parallel story, Frank and Joe Hardy are helping the government find some lost nuclear missiles. Of course, the trio cross path and join forces to catch all of the bad guys. This book was a quick read and it was sort of fun to get back to some detectives that I read a lot about when I was younger.
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Operation Titanic by Carolyn Keene
This book is a combination Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys book. In this installment, the Titanic is going to be raised and there is a big media hoopla over that. Nancy is at the gala and is trying to catch a thief. In a parallel story, Frank and Joe Hardy are helping the government find some lost nuclear missiles. Of course, the trio cross path and join forces to catch all of the bad guys. This book was a quick read and it was sort of fun to get back to some detectives that I read a lot about when I was younger.
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September 13, 2011
I liked the story, but it wasn't fabulous. I'm "old school" when it comes to the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries. I try the newer ones now and again and they are good - they just don't compare to the originals. In this case, the separate storylines were interesting I just wasn't thrilled with how they merged at the end.
April 9, 2010
this kind of didn't make sense in the beginning but it was better in the end
January 30, 2016
I like these better than the separate ones.
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October 12, 2018Wow, this one too. These were some of my favorites, and I got them all used which I oddly love?
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