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The Nancy Drew Notebooks #57: The Carousel Mystery

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Carson decides to take Bess, George, and Nancy to his clients' house for a holiday party. Mr. and Mrs. Gangi have twin daughters, Jo and Mia, and invited family and friends to their party. He tells the entire group that his grandfather had a special carousel horse built for the grounds but that it later went missing. The twins found the horse accidentally, and he wants to reveal it to everyone as a special celebration. Before he can though, the girls suddenly start screaming. It turns out that Mr. Gangi wanted to let the kids play and try to grab the brass ring like carousel riders did in the good old days. Someone stole the brass ring though and left behind a note to leave the horses alone or face big trouble. It was signed TG, which are the initials of the owner's grandfather. Bess volunteers Nancy to solve the mystery, which the adults agree to for who knows why. Nancy notices Brenda there, but Brenda refuses to explain why she didn't follow the screams l

The Babysitters Club Mysteries #Dawn Schafer, Undercover Baby-sitter

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Dawn is still in Stoneybrook but getting ready for summer to end and to head back to California. While at a BSC meeting, they get a call from a Mrs. Cornell who needs a sitter. They then get a call from a Mrs. Keats for a sitter. Both women ask for a different sitter but have the same address. Kristy and Dawn get the jobs. The two head to Livingston Place, which is a Mansion that makes Watson's house look like my house. They meet John, the Butler, and then the two clients. Each woman leads one of the girls to a separate wing. Dawn notices a super ugly portrait of a man on the wall. John tells her that it was Mr. Livingston and that they're are more like it around the house. Richard comes to pick Dawn up, and she finds him outside with Mrs. Iorio, a fellow lawyer. She explains that she's the executor of the estate. Apparently, Mr. Livingston was quite the asshole in real life. He pitted his kids against each other all the time. When he died, his will left the

Nancy Drew Files Case #16: Never Say Die (October 1987)

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George is somehow suddenly so good at cycling that she makes it into the junior championships. Steven, the local owner of a successful software company, volunteers to be her sponsor. He not only pays for her new wind suit and for private lessons, but he also pays to have a new velodrome built just for the competition. Her trainer BTW is her boyfriend Jon who hooked up with her in a book I never read before. George is too scared to ask Steven for anything else, even though she needs a new disk bike. That makes it super awesome when he shows up and presents her with one he just bought. His assistant, Peter, seems way too excited to take it from her and adjust the seat and isn't too happy when Jon does it instead. It takes about an hour for weird things to start happening. First of all, someone knocks the concession stand tent down when George is the only one there and sets it on fire. The list of things done to her includes: -Someone tries to run her down in the middl