Bess is excited. TV Rock, a music video network is broadcasting a never before seen tape of her favorite rock star's last concert. Jesse Slade had disappeared three years earlier with his manager on the night of the concert. How could a musician with two Grammys, a gold and a platinum album, suddenly disappear without a trace as he was nearing the climax of his career?
While Nancy, Bess and George watch the concert on TVR, Nancy catches a glimpse of a shadowy object falling off a nearby cliff.
Convinced that Jesse was murdered, Bess calls TVR and gets Nancy on the case. Soon the girls are jetting out to L.A. to look into an unsolved Hollywood mystery.
Going undercover as a veejay at TVR isn't as easy as Nancy thought it would be. Her boss, Renee, seems to be sabotaging Nancy's work at TVR.
Nancy interviews Jesse's old friends and coworkers to see if she can glean any tidbits to help her unravel the mystery. Come to find out, Renee was Jesse's girlfriend, and she was secretly seeing a member of Jesse's band before he disapppeared. Nancy also runs into a Slade memorabilia collector who knows too much.
S.J.

I spent over twenty-five years looking for this book, which I began reading when I was twelve. Allow me to explain. When I was twelve, I checked this paper back book out at my local library and began to read it. It was a scary good read: A sixties style science fiction plot about a husband and wife (on the verge of divorce) who return to the mainland after six months in self-imposed seclusion (no phone, no TV, no radio, no newspaper) on their private island where they had been trying to salvage their failing marriage; when they get back to civilization, they discover that 99% of the world's women have mysteriously died due to some incurable disease and the remaining women of child bearing age have all been rendered barren. It looks like the end of humanity is sure to follow. And the wife that the protagonist was about to divorce? Well, she's a hot commodity now. Everybody wants her. It was a page-turner in the grand tradition,and I flipped through the first four chapter pretty fast. On the bus ride home, my school chum asked if he could read it. As I had checked out about a dozen books (the library limit), I had more thn enough to keep me well read for the week, so I said yes. My friend, without having gotten around to reading it, returned the book to me on the day it was due, and then the librarian informed me (after I had asked if I could check the book out again to finish it) that the library had a policy of forbidding books to be checked out two times in a row by the same person. This meant I had to leave the book on the shelf for at least a week before I would be permitted to check it out again. Of course, the book was not on the shelf when I returned next week, and , in fact, I did not see the book again until just a few months ago, thanks to Amazon.com. Try as I might, I could not find this book anywhere. When it finally came, I read it in one sitting. And I must say, good writing holds up over time. I'm not going to tell you how it ends. Just go out and buy the book.

This book is simply not worth it if of course your not under 900. I got the book for free, so it didn't real matter with me, however, the tactics in the book are very elementrary, so I would not have payed more than five dollars on it.

This is a book on combinations, which are much more complicated than simple tactics. All of the combinations are taken from World Champion players, featuring 84 complete games from the years 1880-1998.
I very much like the mix of games in this book from the past 100 years- there are some classic games here including very famous games by Lasker and Spassky, as well as some excellent combinations from some more obscure recent games by Kasparov, and one of the games taken from the Fischer-Spassky rematch in 1992. A really diverse mix of strictly tactical games taken from the best players in the history of the game of chess. A real bargain. I have a lot of chess books but this one is one of the best- a couple other chess books I like are Gligoric's "new" book I Play Against The Pieces, and Karpov's Best Games (Batsford 1997)

This book contains 80 complete games with analysis featuring all of the world champions from Lasker to Kasparov. While the analysis doesnt seem to break much new ground, it still is accurate. The reviewer below who trashes this book obviously doesnt own it and probably never even read it, and probably never even saw the book.

This book was sooooooooooooo good. This is the first book of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery book that I've ever read, but it encouraged me to keep on reading the series! This book was excellent, though there wasn't much romance... I love reading mystery with romance in it. But still, it was just great... I definitely recommend it to people who like Carolyn Keene's books. It's about Nancy on this case where some guy tries to get the special cruise tickets for raising the Titanic. Then he's killed and Nancy is actually there, and Nancy meets the billoinare that's raising the Titanic. Frank and Joe Hardy are trying to get a normal vacation with their friend, Eric Cox, but they end up in a mystery that somehow relates with Nancy's case. It's really filled with action and mystery. Two thumbs up and a five stars book!

This book was excellent! It was the first I've read of the series and it got me hooked. Nancy is trying to find the person who is getting so many tickets to cruises and concerts and stuff when her main suspect is shot dead by a supposedly dead criminal. Nancy continues her search on the Raise the Titanic Cruise, where the millionare Walter Welsch plans to raise part of the Titanic. Her only question is: What's up with this millionare? Plus, when the Security Force on the cruise ship ascerains that there are bombs in specific places on the ship, it's up to Nancy to figure out where the controls to the bombs are. Meanwhile, as Frank and Joe drive to an Oceanography Institute, a group of men knocks their car off the road. Their adventures continue at the institute with their friend Eric.Then, the Network sets them up to pose as reporters on the Raise the TItanic Cruise to find a criminal responsible for... well you'll just have to read it. The plot is awesome and the ending is really a surprise. Their isn't really any Nancy/Frank stuff, except for a little joke about it at the end. This is really a Must-Read book!

The book that I read was Operation: Titanic. Carolyn Keene, one of my favorite mystery writers, wrote this book. As you already have guessed this book is a mystery. I loved the suspense in this book especially because this book contains two mysteries all rolled into one. I would recommend this book to kids ten or older.
This book is about Nancy Drew, a detective who shares a lot of her stories with her best friend Bess Marvin. Two of the other main characters are Frank and Joe Hardy, who follow their Dad's footprints. They too are detectives, and their father is a detective who is known about nation wide. These young detectives help find the thieves that are planning to attack the Hampton. The Hampton is a cruise ship bound to raise the Titanic from her watery grave. This book sure has a lot of surprises.
In the beginning Nancy Drew is invited by the ever so handsome billionaire, Walter Welsh, to see the Titanic be raised. She accepts the invitation and Bess Marvin tags along. On the boat she spots some thieves that caused a murder back in Chicago, and has an exciting time trying to track them down. When the ship gets attacked she leads the way to the scene of the crime.
All the while Frank and Joe are trying to enjoy a nice vacation until their car gets run off the road by a van. Finally Frank and Joe escape but find other strange happenings at their stay at Wedge Grove Oceanography. During these strange happenings Frank and Joe are hired to work for the Network, a government security team. Their job is to ride in a helicopter to the site of the Titanic and board the Hampton, who is owned by Walter Welsh. Frank and Joe are to pose as journalist and try to find a man who they think is aboard the ship and is very dangerous.
On the ship Nancy, Bess, and the Hardy boys get together and exchange stories. They soon find the needed information to stop the Hampton from going under. They even get to enjoy dinner and a dance on board one of the nicest cruise ships in America.
I truly enjoyed this book and would rate it a nine on a one to ten scale. So if you like suspense and thrill this would be a great book to read!

As a lover of the horror genre, I was thrilled to see a new horror book by someone that didn't have the last name King, Koontz or Saul. I chose this book based on the reviews I saw on the web site, and boy was I sorry. DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!!!
This book has too many tired ideas and stories that go nowhere.
From now on I will stick with writers with the last name King, Koontz or Saul. At least I know I will be getting good (if not great) stories to read!...

You know what makes this collection so good? It's the way the author takes the same old tired storylines and firmly kicks them on their rear. Very clever twists! I read it in one night. Believe the hype!

Yes, there are places where the author stumbles, but this is still hands down the best debut I've read in years. Well worth it.

I read this book many years ago and always wondered why Mr. Keene waited so long to indict so many legendary spiritualists. I recall his assasination of Mabel Riffle, long-time president of Indiana's Camp Chesterfield, a long and ugly section of the book making her out to be a greedy, cranky fraud. But Mabel Riffle died in 1960, and Keene waited until 1976 to write this book. I recall also Ethel Post-Parrish-Riley, Camp Silver Belle medium, also attacked as a complete fraud and confidance woman. Ethel too died in 1960. What chance do either of these women have to reply to Keene's charges? Why were the only identifiable people in his books already dead and unable to respond (unless through a spiritualist medium!) to his many charges? I remember trying to find reference to any living person in his book years ago and there were none. What was or is Keene afraid of?

Interesting, but begs for confirmation by the end. Not very well written, but good enough to finish. An interesting consideration but unsatisfyingly unconfirmed. Examples, and bibliography much too old.

I was very interested in the observation at the beginning that psychic phenomena do exist on a much smaller, more personal scale, but that condemnation of same by the Christian churches was unwise. If psychic experiences were treated contextually as a natural part of religious experience (see William James), there wouldn't be such a fascination with the "forbidden", and Lamar's money-grubbing sideshows wouldn't be so enticing.

I also wonder if the National Spiritualist Association of Churches or any of its leading lights has ever published an official response to Lamar's book.

Among the rocky coasts, shimmering turquoise waters and ancient ruins of Greece you can rest assured that a mystery lies in wait for Nancy Drew and the Hardy brothers.
In Islands of Intrigue, Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin and the Hardys meet up in Greece by chance. For the girls, this Grecian vacation is nothing but a pleasure trip, but for the Hardys -- it's work. A dozen Phoenix missiles disappeared from a military base near Athens, along with an undercover agent. The Network is convinced that the agent, Terry Brodsky, is going to sell the missiles to another country.
At a smart cafe in Athens, Nancy Drew overhears a man threatening to kill a girl. Nancy offers her help to the young woman, Alexis Constantine, who is the daughter of one of the richest men in the world. Suddenly, Alexis disappears.
Nancy and the Hardys find that their cases are starting to connect...
Islands of Intrigue is one of the better books of the later Super Mysteries. It comes before the series jumped the shark with a bunch of enviromental and animal rights issues in books like "At All Costs," and "Murder on the Fourth of July."
True, you won't find the "Nancy/Frank" stuff in this book, but too much of the attraction actually takes away from the mystery.

~Sara Jeffries...themissingpage

As a big Nancy Drew fan I found this book exciting and one of the best books in the Super Mystery series. It has excitment and suspence, not to mention mystery! As Nancy finds herself and Bess( Nancy's best friend) in the romantic islands of Greece she also finds herself a mystery as a new friend of hers,Alexis Canstantine, is kidnapped. Well just as she always does, Nancy sees this as a chance for a much enjoyable mystery. Meanwhile the famous brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, also find them selves in Greece but for a different reason. They are there to follow a man accused of stealing a dozen of U.S. super powered misiles. I give this book two thumbs up! It was an exciting page turner, you won't be able to put it down!

When are ya'll people gonna learn that the whole Nancy and Frank thing is utterly and completely over. They kissed how many times two thats right only TWO. Then after that they admitted that it felt very very wrong and very awkward. I mean they say that they LOVE Ned and Callie they just don't love other people they love Callie and Ned. So get out of your head that there is ever gonna be a thang going on between Nancy and Frank!

I loved this book but I do hate it that Nancy ALWAYS DOES get the stupid and almost worthless case. It's been a while since I've read this book so I don't know whats going on but I know she has a crapy case. Like the one where she's in Memphis and she has recover a stolen guitar Puh-leeze!!! Where "The Hardy Boys" are tracking international spies, assassins, terroists etc. etc. It always seems that way no wait it is always that way! Other than all that "other stuff" it was a pretty good book ;)

I wish that Ned and Nancy would get back together. I just know they still love each other. Plus, there is hardly any mystery. By the way, whatever happened to Dave and Burt? They were the ideal people for Bess and George.

I think that this book was pretty good, but I personally like to have plenty of romance and adventure, which wasn't shown much in this book. I did like story though because it was interesting and different from Caroyln Keene's other Nancy Drew books.

It was a pretty good book. But who here keeps wishing that Nancy Drew and Frank Hardy will get together?????(Read some Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mystery)But it was a very entertaining book! Read it.

This review concerns the original 1937 edition as well as the edited revised 1972 edition. Nancy, Bess, George and Mr. Drew are staying at Deer Mountain Hotel/Lodge because Mr. Drew is working on a case concerning jewel thieves. He asks Nancy's help to look for a woman suspected of being a member of the gang and who is supposed to be in the vicinity of the hotel. The only clue to her identity is that she carries an expensive jewel case with the picture of a child in it (really now, like people are going to notice her jewel case and that it has a child's picture, but not be able to give even the slightest bit of a physical description of the woman, like her hair color????). Nancy also hears a story about a haunted bridge in the woods near the hotel and she enters a golf tournament. Zzzzzzzzz. This has to be one of the most inappropriately titled books in the series. There is a "haunted" bridge, but Nancy discovers the truth behind it on page 42 (in the original edition)! The book isn't 1/4 over at that point. What does the bridge really have to do with the rest of the mystery? The whole golf tournament part is rather boring and unsuspenseful. I'm not giving away some big secret by telling you that Nancy wins. Nancy always wins or is the best at everything she does. Frankly, I find it rather annoying. Just once I'd like to see Nancy be just alright at doing something or have Bess or George be better than her at something. The book isn't a complete waste of time, the mystery concerning the jewel thieves isn't that bad and kept me somewhat interested. This wasn't one of my favorites, but it was worth reading; although, anyone who reads it expecting a story about ghosts is going to be let down.

This story is about an 18-year old gorl, Nancy Drew, who finds herself in a mystery on a haunted bridge. She is qualifying to play in the golf tournament when a boy named Ned tells her about the bridge being haunted with a ghost guarding it. Her father tells her about a jewel thief that they are trying to locate. A man named Barty is suspected by nancy because of his various handwriting styles. Then she finds a Margaret Judson who she thinks is the jewel thief. Miss Drew finds many clues... I thought this book was very fun and enjoying. It was the first Nancy Drew book that I've ever read. I like to read mystery and suspense stories where you suspect one person and it turns out he was innocent all the time and it was someone else all along. I have read "The Boxcar Children" books before and also enjoyed them because of the mystery. My least favorite part is how in real life suspects are usually smart enough to escape, but in the two Nancy Drew books I've read, the culprit is never wise to get away from the officer. However, Nancy Drew always completes a mystery fairly making sure the right person is punished. When I first started it, I couldn't put it down.
My favorite part of the story was when Nancy's two best friends - Bess and George... They called the police and were proud of themselves for what they did... Overall, I enjoyed reading "The Haunted Bridge" and suggest for you to read it also. When you do, I hope you find it was good as I did.

I thought this was a very good book. The book was about Nancy Drew, finding a lost treasure in a river! My favorite character was Nancy Drew because she is VERY brave and also she is very smart. My favorite part of the book was when they found a bridge "The Haunted Bridge" I would encourage anyone to read this book if you are into mystery stories.

This book is quite simplistic and devoid of any strategic learning value to help you improve your games. If you are a beginner and seriously want to improve your chess with easy-to-read authors try Jeremy Silman's "Reassess Your Chess: Workbook", Bruce Pandolfini's "Russian Chess" describing six games move by move, Irving Chernev's "Logical Chess: Move by Move", and of course Aaron Nimzovitch's "My System".

This Samurai book tells you to "Seize The Initiative" as one of their strategies. True, but how to do it requires you to work and practice, and the guidance of good chess authors. -- I give it two stars because of it's inspirational value and innovative idea. It's not a boring read, just not a very useful chess book.

SAMURAI CHESS by Mr. Michael J. Gelb and Mr. Raymond Keene puts things in perspective for the neophyte chess player and gives one a basis of comparison with a familiar theme - the martial arts. I've poured through several chess books which were all too advanced and gave skant attention to a beginner chess player, but as a dedicated Judo and Jiu-Jitsu practioner, I was finally able to absorb some basic chess concepts through this book and the author's ability to draw a martial arts analogy. Yet the only flaw is that the Japanese already consider the Asian game of 'Go' a martial art equal to Karate or Kendo and they give those 'Go' players hard won Dan or Black Belt ratings; and this is hardly appropriate to Western chess, which is, after all, only a game!

Being on my school's Chess team, I'm exposed to many strategy guides. Although they can be helpful, they...are....DULL! Maybe I'm just not a serious-enough player, but I don't especially care for memorizing dozens of openings. I want general strategies. Samurai Chess does just that. Besides being a stategy guide, it's a pretty good read, giving insight to an alternative mindset for playing Chess. I could be biased, though, as I am in third-year Japanese and I love their culture.