Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Be a Detective Mystery Stories #6: The Missing Money Mystery (1985)

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This is basically a Choose Your Own Adventure Book but featuring Nancy and the Hardy Boys. They head to California to stay with the Blake family, who are friends of Frank and Joe's parents. Jill, their daughter, tells them that she saw someone steal something and run away and that the person kind of looked like their gardener. Nancy investigates the gardener, and the boys check out the chip.

One ending has Nancy catch some robbers and lock them in the basement of the house until the cops arrive, while the boys find a silicone computer chip, spend the whole book trying to find who stole it, and finally learn that it's worthless.

Another ending has Nancy find out that the gardener is innocent and saving the day because she's Nancy. As she and Jill float in the pool, Jill is super relieved that he's innocent. Nancy laughs about how the Hardy brothers once again followed the wrong lead.

In another ending, both sides win. They actually work together to solve the mystery. There's also an ending where Nancy chases the wrong lead, the boys solve the big crime, and they take the girls out to celebrate at a fancy restaurant. Other endings have Nancy winning and calling the guys to tell them, one where the gardener stole the computer chip and tried to sell it, and another where Nancy finds out that someone stole Mr. Blake's only copy of some big upcoming movie and got it back.

*The very beginning of this book has a special message from the “authors” of both series, which is pretty cute given that they started using those names decades ago.

*I don't have a whole lot to say on this one. It was pretty cute, and I love the books where Nancy works with the Hardy Boys, but it's kind of hard to recap a book that has so many different possible endings!

*I would like to point out that this cover looks nothing at all like the Nancy we all love. What is up with that hair??

Comments

  1. SerenSeptember 23, 2019 at 11:48 AM

    I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books from age of 9 and was reading still at 13.

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  2. AndreaOctober 20, 2019 at 3:13 AM

    I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books too. They were so much fun.

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  3. JennJanuary 28, 2021 at 5:55 PM

    They were awesome!

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