I have almost the whole series of Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermysteries and I thought it was different because Nancy only goes to Memphis to sightsee and acompany Frank and Joe on their case.

Best of Enemies was a considerably good book. It wasn't dull and had a lot of action and enthusiasm. The novel shows the relationship of a wealthy Mexican boy, a Texan Confederate troop and a Navajo slave girl through a rough and hard time during the Civil War. Best of Enemies also reflects on how survival may depend on the least expected persons, and, another thing which I liked about it is that you can feel the emotions of the characters and the hardship and joys that they go through. An excellent book which I recommend to young readers who enjoy a good, well written historical fiction novel.

I'm usually a big fan of Nancy Drew's, but this isn't what I beleive to be one of the better ones. Nancy and George head off to Emerson College to visit Nancy's boyfriend, Ned, who is participating in the clues challenge along with Nancy, George, and some others from Neds college. Soon the contest turns nasty. I myself was kind of bored by it however. There have been better Nancy Drew's, but nevertheless, it was still a-ok.

In this Nancy Drew Mystery Story, Nancy goes to her boyfriend Ned Nickerson's university with her friends Bess Marvin (a petite, boy-crazy blonde) and George Fayne (Bess's completely opposite cousin--actually a girl, who is sporty and athletic). They are going to be on Ned's fraternity's team in an annual 'scavenger hunt' called The Clues Challenge, but things start to go wrong for their team from the beginning--is someone from another team sabotaging them, or is it part of something deeper...and more mysterious yet. To paraphrase Nancy, 'I'm sure you'll find out!'

I was very excited to see this book listed. For a day and a half I was struggling trying to create a Frame 5.5 template that would satisfy print and html viewing using Frame 5.5's conversion feature. The book stated that it had an entire section devoted to this process. Alas, the book covered a pre-release version of the utility and provided no more information than the sparse Adobe documentation and online help.
The title didn't give the reader a true understanding of the document. I thought they would go into some detail regarding the process. Instead they provided a 1,000 ft view point of four utilities.
I hope I can return the book. The book spent a lot of space on HTML reference and web design. Hopefully, someday specialty writers will realize that a lot of comprehensive, easy-to-use HTML reference documents already exist and spend there space focused on their speciallty.

Having spent the past three years working in Framemaker, and never having written in HTML, this book served me, at least, as an introduction to HTML for Framemaker-users.

The first 80% of the book was a bit laboured. Largely, it is preaching to the converted (Yes, performing edits on one source file, and producing multiple output forms from that, is preferable to repeating the edits on multiple source files).

The last 20% of the book was far more illuminating, and well worth reading.

I liked this book, but the story was kind of dull. Nancy and her friends are trying to solve a mystery built on a legend and they find an abandoned city. This story is not as good as most of the early hardback Nancy Drew books.

Nancy Drew is a young detective. Nancy usually helps her father, Carson Drew, with his cases. Nancy's mystery all starts when she heard rumors that long ago there was a treasure hidden in a city that is now buried under the Nevada Desert. Nancy and her friends, Bess, George, Ned, Burt, and Dave, plan to join a dig sponsored by two colleges to hunt for the gold. Before Nancy starts, she receives an ancient tablet with petroglyphs carved on it. But with the clue from the tablet, a thief also wants the treasure and brings threat and danger to Nancy and her friends.

One stressful adventure after another overwhelmed Nancy and her friends in 102-degree temperature as they follow Nancy's guesses above and below ground. They are assisted by a Indian woman and a young geology student. In the end Nancy and Ned almost lose their lives, just after Nancy has discovered the precious hidden treasure of gold under the Nevada Desert.

The book does not have a wonderful and jumpy beginning, but the ending makes the 142 pages worthwhile! My favorite part of the book was learning in the theater, refer to "Hamlet" as the Scottish play or the play will have bad luck. I am a fan of all of the Sebastian Barth mysteries, but this book ranks as one of my favorites!

This was a great book because, it's very interesting and I did'nt want to put it down. It was both exciting and fun at the same time. Actress Micheale Caraway gets letters that start out to be innocent fan letters, but than turn threatening. The person is not who you might think! A very well written mystery that will keep you on the edge of your chair!

This review concerns the original 1931 edition. Nancy, Bess, George and Bess and George's cousin, Alice head west to spend the summer at a ranch in Arizona. Unfortunately, this is pretty much all that the book is about. The reader gets 203 pages of the girls' adventures during the numerous times that they are either lost in the wilderness or stuck there during storms. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. A feeble attempt to make the book interesting by adding a couple of mysteries, one concerning Alice and the other concerning an orphan girl being mistreated by her guardian, falls flat because the mysteries are just a sidenote to the escapades of Nancy and her friends. I didn't read the revised edition published in the 1960s; however, the stories are similar. The revised edition has an added mystery concerning a ghost horse which may make it more interesting, but typically the writing style used in the books published from the late 1950s on is so horrible that the books are just plain awful. So I don't have much faith that the revised edition is any good either. Only buy this dull book if you're looking to complete your set.

This story starts when Nancy and her "chums" visit an Arizona ranch. They meet a girl on the train whose father has disappeared. Once they reach Arizona, the find an orphan girl living in a remote cabin with a cruel guardian. And then people at Shadow Ranch report a ghost horse is running around at night. Could the three mysteries be related? Find out when you read THE SECRET AT SHADOW RANCH. Only Nancy Drew could solve this one - and you know she will! It's worth the extra money to buy this reprint instead of the 1960's version...this is the original text as it was in the 1930's.

This particular Nancy Drew book is very good, wonderful for horse lovers also! It is about horses, and there is a ghost horse that has been walking around and Nancy is trying to find out why!

i love nancy drew and the hardy boys and they are usually very good but this was a major disipointment. it was all mixed up and the plot was not that great. i imitatly guessed who the culprit was.DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS BOOK!!!!

I think this book was okay, but definitely not one of the best in the series. It's worth reading if your really bored, and need something to do, but only if you've read the rest of the series first. It's easy to figure out, and the tennis player's a total brat.

I love it

Have you ever seen one of those action movies where you have pretty much figured out what's going to happen after about ten minutes: who will die and how, who's going to be in trouble, etc.? This book reads like that. It's like a rejected Ah-nold movie script, completely lacking any joy, imagination, originality, etc. In about half an hour, I had pretty much guessed how the book would turn out and I got it all right except for one guess.
[SPOLIERS AHEAD]
The main character is a mercenary, but don't let that make you uncomfortable. He was a GOOD mercenary: made a lot of money, killed bad people only. He goes back to his boyhood hometown after thirty years or so only to find everyone has made a pact with the devil except for a few key characters like the plucky teenage girl / sidekick (I'm sure the character had a name, but it doesn't really matter). Luckily, Our Hero is a military expert (not much of a tactician, more of a "let's just shoot people and blow stuff up real good" sort of action hero). Still, even though he is warned that he is fighting the Supernatural Forces of Evil and that guns will not be the answer, it turns out that guns and explosives really do a pretty good job.
There are no surprises, no suspense, things pretty much work the way the characters think they will, they don't seem to be surprised by anything, scared of anything. I know that actors in a movie can look like they're sleepwalking through a role, I didn't think it was possible for characters in a book to do the same thing.
You may have seen the cover of the book, with the skeletal guy playing a piano. There is a possessed piano that we are introduced to early in the book. In a Stephen King book, there would be some doubt to the ultimate outcome. The piano would seem possessed to only one person or that person would have other problems that would make them question what they are seeing. After all, a haunted piano that plays by itself, rolls around the room and tries to kill people is pretty out of the ordinary. But in this book, you are told right off the bat that the piano is possessed. No question about it. It doesn't really figure in the plot except as a conversation piece to anyone who comes over and it does play songs with foreshadowing titles which leads me to believe that the authors scoured at least several albums looking for record titles that would fit. Probably the only original bit of thought in the entire book.

This is the first and hopefully only book that Mr. Johnstone writes with a co-author. The story is fast pace and very scary for the reader. It has some humourous moments and at other times seems a bit disconnected but overall the story leaves the reader wishing that the sequel would be written and released soon.
The story deals with a old mercenary returning home to retire and relax. The problem is a old friend of his is having a problem with a old upright piano he bought. The hero agrees to investage the history of the piano and the horror ride starts for the reader.
I hope that if they ever rerelease this book they won't change the cover. That skeleton dressed up in a tux peering at you (the reader) over his right shoulder promises you a wild and scary ride in the book. If you can find a copy of this book I would recommend that you read it in a well lit room because it will give you nightmares.

From a historical standpoint, this is a good book. There are a few Gambit lines that are covered in good detail because quite simply they are considered sound or at least popular. The lesser known Gambits are not handled with the same enthusiasm. Listing them in alphabetical order makes it easy to locate as well. Even though Raymond Keene is a great chess writer, he is not infallible. Under the 'Grob' (1.g4) he states this may be the worst opening move if 1.f3 isn't. Of course this was published back in 1992, and recent trends show that a g4 pawn spike can be rather effective even if castled Kingside. My question to Mr. Keene would be: what about 1.h4, 1.Nh3, 1.a4, and 1.Na3? A trivial matter however which just goes to show you don't have to believe everything you read no matter who's writing the book. Buy it if you can find it for less than $10 US.

In this book, the gambits are catalogued variation by variation, with assessments of playability and potential refutations. This is not an in-depth coverage of the gambits involved, but a light, surface volume. Keene's style is, as ever, pleasant, and yet the work is a tad surface for anything other than perhaps a quick look at potential odd blitz weapons one might face.

I truly think that though this book was somewhat mysterious, it was more for kids looking for a romance novel. The original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories seemed much more suspenseful and exciting, while the Files are based on Nancy's various dates and trips to visit rock stars and models. Though this was a pleasant mystery, I wouldn't call it a thriller. I suggest you stick to the original series, unless you're hungry for romance.

It was one of the best. It had a lot of suspenseful chapter endings. But some of the parts seemed strange! This book is different from other ones! I would recommend this book to people who like it when Nancy and Ned get together or go on dates! I liked it.