Nancy Drew is called to California where the international championship games are being held. Nancy, George, and Bess must find out who the myssterious black knight ridder is. Ther life is on the line. Will they find ridder before its to late....... Also the Hardy boys were called into to help security.While serching for clues to unmask ridder they find Illegal steroids at the games but will they catch ridder before he/she stricks in murder.... And will Nancy lose Ned..... Read the book to find the answers to this chilling tail.

Hi! I just read the book Dangerous Games and I loved it! So much suspence with Ridder and the mysterous black chess knight being found everywhere. It kept me reading. As I'm on a summer reading program these Nancy Drew books are fun, quick, and easy to read. I recommend this book to everybody who loves mystery

THIS BOOK IS SO COOL. IT HAS ALOT OF NANCY/FRANK STUFF & NED IS IN IT THOUGH. I NEVER COULD HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT MYSTERY. NED AND NANCY GET INTO A SORT-OF ARGUMENT AND NED GETS MAD. AND THE MYSTERY CLUES ARE REALLY COOL. ITS A GREAT BOOK. IT WAS THE FIST IN THE SERIES I GOT TO READ. ITS MY FAVORITE. I RECOMEND IT TO ALL WHO IS A FAN OF NANCY DREW.

It's about this really smart 17 year old guy. He gets in trouble. Meets agirl. Thinks his moms crazy around the end of the book. Then him and his mom our very happy at the end. They have a normal life. Terrific book. I've only read 1 or maybe 2 books that i had enjoyed. But i'm glad that I liked reading it because I want to try to extend my vocabulary to it's highest point. Read it. I promise you wont fall asleep.

When I think of reading, I think sleeping, yawning and boring. They make us read every single day. Their torchering us. And they say reading is good for your mind and for your health. I think bla bla bla. Get those books away from me. Groose! Now that I'm a teenager I know I need to extend my vocabulary to it's greastest point. Or I wont get any where in life. I was in the library one day looking for a book to read. I picked up a book called danger.com. It sounded interesting. I started reading it and it was an amazing book. I loved it. The best!!!

I just finished reading this book and I loved it. I don't want to give the whole story away, but it is about a boy who has a whole bunch of lies told to him(even by his mother) and is wanted to work for some hackers to take over the world. You think you know the story at first, but it twists around at the end and it all adds up. This is a must read for people who like mysteries and computers.

I thought this book was really cool. Something happens between Nancy and Frank, but I'm not going to say what. Anyway, the Nancy & Frank aspect is very exciting. The action is good, the plot is good, but I mostly read these books because of Nancy and Frank. I mean, Frank's girlfriend Callie never helps on cases (she's a very wimpy girl) and we all know who would win if she and Nancy fought it out. Frank should dump the wench. Likewise with Nancy's boyfriend Ned, except that when he helps on a case, which is rare because he's always at "college" (what's he been doing there all these years, throwing frat parties?), he does something stupid like getting kidnapped. Frank and Nancy need to lose Callie and Ned, and go out with each other. Frank cares about Nancy a lot more than Ned does. Maybe Callie and Ned should hook up and leave Frank and Nancy alone. Back to the point, though, the book is really good and I think almost anyone would like it.

Hi! I haven't read this book yet, but I heard it was really good, and I have to say that I think Nancy and Frank should get together because they both like each other. Yeah I know Ned really like's Nancy and Nancy really like's Ned they are just not made for each other. Nancy like's mysteries and Ned doesn't like Nancy running after mysteries. I mean Ned cares for Nancy. Frank loves mysteries and he loves it when Nancy helps him with a mystery. I dont think Frank and Callie should be together. I have read a few of the Hardy Boys books and you almost never here about Callie. I read The Last Resort and Frank and Nancy kiss! Thats how I can tell Frank and Nancy like each other.

Hey e-mail me at onavy100@aol.com and tell me do you think Nancy Hardy sounds good or Nancy Nickerson???

I recommend this book to any book lover! It has mystery & suspense, action & adventure and romance. I love the Nancy and Frank story. He notices every little thing about her. Like how good he thought she looked when they were in the airplane and how beautiful she seemed in front of an exotic sunset backdrop. I love the part when Frank was trapped in a coffin and all his regrets and hopes all washed down on him. And when he saw all the times he could have told her how he felt. I also love the scene in the cab and they were about to kiss.

And when the case ended and Frank and Nancy went out to the hotel's balcony and it was Nancy's turn to feel regret. That she was gonna go back to the States the next day. How she would leave the fantasy of playing Frank's wife and feeling his closeness. And how Frank sort of read her mind, turned her around and kissed her. And how she pulled back because she felt guilty. and the funny part when Bess walked in on their intimate and serious conversation about how they could never be and Frank's reluctantly agreeing with her. It was such a beautiful scene, the Egyptian desert in the background and the sun rising. And how he hugged her. They are meant to be. They shouldn't have left each other! They should've stayed together!

"Childhood Leukemia" by Nancy Keene is a book I recommend to everybody I meet who has a child newly diagnosed with leukemia. Everything you need to know is in this book. Easy to understand, Nancy's book has removed a lot of the anxiety I have carried throughout my 4 year old son's treatment. Appropriate information can be found from whatever stage of treatment your child may be at. I don't know how I made it through my son's first year without this book.... Thanks Nancy :)

In 1993, my son Brian was dx with ALL. He went throught treatment until Dec. 1996. In 1997 he relapsed. Since then, I have joined an online support group and had many questions. Nancy's book was recommended to me. This book has explainations on what leukemia is, how the blood works in the body, and things to expect from your child as a cancer patient. It is a book that is written in a style that is very understandable, especially to the newly diagnosed parents. You don't have to be a doctor to be able to understand the information.

"Childhood Leukemia" by Nancy Keene is a tremendous guide for anyone dealing with a child with leukemia, whether they be newly diagnosed, in the middle of treatment or completely finished with treatment. It provides easy to understand definitions and explanations of the medical terms. She goes beyond the provision of definitions though and allows those who have been there to share their knowledge with the reader. This should be the first book that a family picks up after their child is diagnosed with leukemia. It would also be a good resource for medical personnel, providing a glimpse of the experience from a parent's viewpoint.

I loved this book, it was so great.
The part when jo gets shot was so weird,i thought jo was going to get killed.I love it when nancy and her friends team up with the hardy boys.As everyone knows allready, NANCY AND FRANK sould get together.Nancy and frank love each other but for some reason she stays with ned, and frank stays with callie.But i really wonder if they get together some day.This book didn't have much stuff about him and nancy though.You also have to read a question of guilt, jo completely hates nancy but at the end he is so nice.You have to read process of elimination.

I thought that the concept of this book was really great. I mean killing endangered species food and evil CIA. This book was very suspenseful I really liked it!!

This was a really great book. I it was rather a different kind of way to introduce Frank and Joe's part in the book. I mean-a man stealing bamboo is kinda funny. I also thought that the humor in the beginning(the part about Frank calling Joe immature and Joe kidding that Frank had hurt his feelings and then Frank buying lunch and joking about Joe not leaving anything for the lunch crowd)was good, and the other humor(like the man at the rental shop and the part about Frank not being allowed to play with matches.) I think that it gave the reader a good chance to solve the mystery(when the guy said that e hadn't touched the disk since whenever and that kind of disk wasn't invented yet) and it also was funny at the same time(Joe saying that the officer threw like a girl, the officer saying that Joe caught like a girl, and Nancy threataning that they might both get kicked by a girl.) I also thought that the part where Joe got shot was really exciting too. I wanted to keep reading and reading and reading. All in all, it was a really great book with a great plot and lots of action and adventure. I think that it should be turned into a movie.

My god! I did not realize how many people felt the same way about the Frank and Nancy situation as I did! I mean, What Carolyn Keene and or Franklin Dixon need to do is just get Callie and Ned out of the picture and get Frank and Nancy together. I mean, come on in Secrets of the Nile, they defenatly had sparks between them, especially at the end of the book. Any girl knows that you can not wish for a guy to kiss you like that, and then say "Well, I'm in love with my current boyfriend right now, even though I think about you night and day, whenever we're together on case" That's just craziness! I know that this is just a book, but come on! I just want to see one series when Frank and Nancy are together and I don't care who writes the thing. Heck, if I get the support for it, I'll write the series, if I could get the copyrights to it. Anyways, email me at ... and tell me what you think!

This book was cool because Nancy & Frank... Well, you'll have to find out. Honestly, though, if you were trapped in a cabin with a really hot guy (or girl) and you thought you were going to die, what would you do? Nancy should end up with Frank because Ned is a total wimp and he always tells her to drop her cases. Frank doesn't do that, he helps her get them solved. What a pair they make!

This was a really good book. I loved how there was a good mystery plot and there was romance too. I hated how Ned showed up though. He needs to get a life, he is so insecure. Oh well, I loved the part where Frank and Nancy were in the cabin alone together...that was great. Anyone who hasn't read the book, must! It was really good! And if you liked the Nancy and Frank relationship, read Secrets of the Nile!

This review concerns the original 1934 edition as well as the revised 1965 edition, which is a completely different story than the original. In the original edition, Nancy becomes concerned over the welfare of twin babies recently adopted by the Blairs, an actor and actress, who only adopted the twins to further their social standing. The babies are neglected by the Blairs as well as the nursemaid hired for them and Nancy becomes determined to find the twins mother, convinced that she did not willingly abandon the children. How Nancy finds the babies' mother and reunites another set of twins seperated for many years is an interesting; although, not very exciting story. This edition is very well-written, the characters are well-defined and the story is intruiging, but the book basically lacks a criminal (the Blairs aren't criminals, they're just not nice) and as such there was very little action and excitement. If you read Nancy Drew to be excited, don't read this book, but if you enjoy an interesting story, by all means give this one a try. In the revised edition, Nancy, George and Bess travel to Misty Lake and meet Cecily Curtis who provides the girls with two challenging mysteries. First, her fiance is a successful music artist who suspects that his record company is cheating him out of some of the royalties from his songs; however, the company swears that they are being honest with him. Second, Cecily is searching for a long-lost family treasure she believes is somewhere in the area; a broken half of a locket being her only clue. Also factoring into this story are the apparition of a launch which sank in Misty Lake many years ago and a frightened girl who closely resembles Celily, but continually runs away from Nancy and her friends. This is one of the few cases where I liked the revised edition of a book more than the original. The book is surprisingly well-written considering it was published after the late 1950s when the quality of writing in the series went grossly downhill. The mysteries are very intriguing and the book almost has a spooky quality about it. The original edition I would rate 2 stars, but the revised edition I would rate 3 1/2 stars.

I just loved this book. As a big Nancy Drew fan, I really appreciate the work Applewood has put into reprinting the Originals, just as they were in the 1930s. Wow!!! What a touching sotry. I hope Applewood Books keeps on printing! I love Nancy Drew and this is tied for my favorite story along with THE BUNGALOW MYSTERY.

The Nancy Drew books are all really great. But this one really caught my eye. It's about Nancy, Bess, and George going to meet Cecily, and trying to solve a ghost mystery. They figure out more of Cecily's past and solve the mystery about the mysterious boat. If you want a really great book, read this one and Carolyn Keene's other fantastic Nancy Drew mysteries. (The old ones are better than the new ones, though. Bugt they are also really good.)

from "Last Book Before World's End" pg. 81 of MONSTER FASHION. The French novelist Marguerite Duras wrote "If writing isn't all things, all contraries confounded, a quest for vanity and void, it's nothing." MONSTER FASHION shows us that Jarret Keene is on just such a quest. His poems attempt to reconcile opposites and antagonists, academia & pop culture, youth & age, courage & fear, life & death, sacred & profane...and succeed due to his subtle and bizarre sense of humor and an exuberant mysticism. He is the missing link, an academic who doesn't write like one. He writes like an ecstatic and slightly deranged desert essene mystic who somehow found himself trapped in a shopping mall and took refuge in the comic shop. The contradictions mirror the man himself. He is 95% catholic and 100% voodoo, he married his high school sweetheart and dances in his underwear on tabletops in dive bars, he teaches college and pukes his horror on neatly trimmed suburban lawns. This is an important book because it is unlike anything else.It is undescribable. Forget Ezra Pound, read this one.

Every damned poem in this book is a gift. Jarret Keene's funny, insightful, and is telling stories that resonate like they've been with me all along and I was simply too lost in the fog of daily toil to sit up and notice. His stuff is that good. It pierces the shroud of shock news and sitcom plaque that builds up on our psyches as we go about our lives. Keene's poems cleanse us, wipe our minds off so that they squeak with a kind of verbal freshness when his words hit our eyes.

Take, for a single instance, "Gifted Students," about a friend who has drowned. It sneaks in under your guard. Like a blindside tackle, you never see it coming. You draw breath to laugh and it comes out a sigh. THIS IS WHAT I WANT POETRY TO DO. These poems connect, and I'm here to tell you that it happens again and again as you work your way through this book.

And with a cover by comics god Jack Kirby, _Monster Fashion_ not only reads like jumper cables hooked up to your brain, it looks good doing it. Now, what more could you ask for?

Unfortunately, in most academic circles poetry that emphasizes the language of current culture, or as it is more often referred to, "pop" culture, is overlooked, ignored, or simply not taken seriously. The reasons for this are probably many, and enigmatic and complex enough for another essay entirely. Ironically enough, even though Jarret Keene's Monster Fashion might not have found a university press for his debut collection, the work is truly original, a concept frequently taught in today's academic workshops, but one that few tend to follow.
Of course, there are gluts of poets trying to "capture" current idioms and phrases, and a select few have become quite successful at it, such as Denise Duhamel or Gerry Lafemina. But Keene's voice is all his own: accessible, non-pejorative, insightful, probing, and urgently engaging. Monster Fashion features dense, lucid (sometimes lurid) imagery, which creates a fantastical, visceral landscape, embracing a comic-book-culture, and simultaneously serving as a backdrop (often satirically) to probe into various social issues. Examples of this abound. Take, for instance, what serves as love for a young man in, "A Love Story":
He opens his lucky pocketknife, cuts her free
from Esquire, folds her, tucks her safely away

in the handmade chamois-skin pouch
his mother gave him at the station. He's a bomber
pilot from Georgia. She's a bombshell from the airbrush

of a Peruvian artist (30).
Or, "Inside the Mystery Funhouse" among a succession of other images, "What's scary is that these mirrors / Distort nothing." The speaker says:
The cotton candy is on fire. See the human lobster
Shooting up drugs made in your sink.
See God in the palm of a transsexual's hand.
Witness the power of the teen vomit machine (16).
Or take, "The Love Song of Alfred E. Neuman" (53) in which the speaker begins in the vein of Eliot with "Let us worry then, you and I," into a barrage of random pop images connected by allusions to Mad magazine. Although the spoof on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", might be enough to enjoy the poem in and of itself, and may have its own kind of social (or at least poetic) implications, the subject matter dealing with society and drugs give it yet another dimension.
'The Love Song' serves as a good transition to speak about another one of Keene's strengths in Monster Fashion-his control of language and formal command. This is a poet who is aware of the masters, who has been schooled in the traditional canon of the 20th century. Theodore Roethke, T.S. Eliot, Oscar Wilde and Charles Simic are but a few of the poets either referred to, or from whom are playfully borrowed. And this is where Keene's originality shines: he uses what he has learned from his graduate years at Florida State under the tutelage of many fine writers, and takes it to another playing field. Besides the over-used, and limiting term, "pop-culture", these poems have metaphorical dimension and accessibility. One does not need to be trained in poetic tradition, or know when the poet alludes to a famous somebody, to thoroughly appreciate Monster Fashion.
My favorite moments are the absorbing pull of the narratives in such pieces as, "In Honor of the Inauguration of the World's First Baby Abandonment Station", "RPM", "Gifted Students", "The Conversion of Aubrey Beardsley" and "Hangover Remedy". These poems, like so many others in this volume, will keep a reader's eye moving down the page because of their conversational rhythms, intelligent and witty observations, humor and original subject matter. Keene's work is edgy. The cumulative effect of these poems may change the way one sees the contemporary world; this is one of the distinguishing features of all good writing.

I love Double Crossing well I love any Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery well for that matter I love any Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys mysterys period ,Anyway in Double Crossing Nan is all set to get aboard a cruise ship for a little fun in the sun vacation,but as she gets aboard she runs into Frank Hardy undercover as the S.S.Duchess's photographer,and finds out that he and Joe are working undercover,Oh and Joe's working as 1 of the kitchen's busboys,but when Nan overhears a plan to sell CIA secrets to another country, her vacation turns into a high-risk hunt for a deadly secret agent,but when murder comes aboard the slueths find they're in the same boat- facing death on all sides. there is some romantic parts with Nan and Frank but nothing big,I wish there was some more romance between them though ,thats always my favorite parts in the book.

This was the first book I read in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys super mystery book and it is by far the best. I think that the plot is great and I really like the way they solve it.

This was quite a page-turner! I remember the first time that I read this book. I think that I was about 13 or 14 years old. Great stuff! I had read a few Hardy Boys books before, but I liked this a lot better. I really liked Nancy, and the plot was given about 50 more pages to develop. There are plenty of surprises and nail-biting suspense (if you're a young teenager). The search for a spy is central, with a nice sideplot about a thief on the ship. The ending blew me away! The first book in the series, and from what I've read, far and away the best.

This review concerns both the original 1933 edition and the revised 1968 edition, which is the one with which most younger readers would be familiar. Both books have a similar story; except the revised edition is shorter, some characters names were changed and some events were either eliminated or altered. During a storm, Nancy, Bess and George seek shelter at an old tea room. While there, they meet a one hundred year old man named Asa Sidney, as well as an orphaned girl and her dishonest guardians. This launches Nancy into the middle of an old family feud between Asa Sidney's relatives and the relatives of his deceased wife, who happens to have been the sister of Bess and George's great-grandfather. Nancy's involvement in the feud ultimately costs her her friendship with Bess and George. Nancy has a lot of work to do as she tries to end the long-standing feud, repair her friendship with Bess and George, discover the parentage of the orphaned girl and prevent the girl's guardians from stealing the fortune that Asa Sidney has amassed. There really isn't much of a mystery to this book; however, the story more than makes up for that. Like all of the other books in the series, it features unscrupulous people up to something dishonest and Nancy usual desire to help someone in need, but this time she is affected personally because of the loss of her friends. I found the book to be very interesting and the writing was very descriptive (at least in the original version). I recommend reading the original version over the revised edition, if possible, but either way this book should not be missed if you are a fan of Nancy Drew. In my opinion it is one of the 5 best books of the series.

I own the entire set of the Applewood re-releases, and this was the best of the lot.

Inexplicably the writing of this book was far superior to the rest of the novels in this series (and they were all very good!) Several other readers that I have spoken with agreed that "The Sign of the Twisted Candles" was their fave!

I wonder if a different "ghost writer" worked on this particular novel? Hmmmm... I guess that will remain a mystery!

This is definately a great Nancy Drew mystery. I read a lot of them often, and this one is definately extremely descriptive and you can just be there with Nancy through thick and thin. I was right there the whole time. Certainly a must for readers!