Nancy Drew Books in Order

Nancy, Bess, and George visit friends in the Colorado Rockies, where sabotage threatens a wildlife refuge. Nancy investigates the attacks and their connection to a local conservation group, turning a mountain visit into a case.

Blind violinist Deirdre Thompson senses trouble at a Seattle concert hall before a competition. As she becomes a target, Nancy Drew investigates a criminal conspiracy and tries to discover who wants the musician out of the way.

Exchange student Paula DeJagger starts behaving strangely while staying with one of Nancy's friends. Nancy's investigation reveals that Paula and other visiting students face blackmail, with someone pressuring them to commit crimes far from home.

Fires, vandalism, and poisoned food threaten a popular River Heights restaurant. Nancy investigates the attacks and finds connections to a nearby mansion's vault and a valuable ruby, suggesting the disturbances serve a much larger criminal plan.

Nancy visits Vera Alexander in White Falls, Massachusetts, where plans for a factory museum bring death threats and a stolen antique trunk. To understand the present danger, Nancy must investigate the factory owner's decades-old murder.

An old friend of Carson Drew invites Nancy and her friends to Highland Retreat in the Cascade Mountains. The sprawling property holds a lingering legend of an untapped gold mine, drawing Nancy toward its mystery.

Nancy visits her friend Colleen, whose valuable filly Nightingale is entered in an international horse show. A mysterious masked rider threatens the horse, and Nancy must stop the attacks before Colleen's prized animal is killed.

A former student returns from New York to star in Madame Dugrand's production of The Nutcracker. Theft and arson threaten the rehearsals, leaving Nancy to find the saboteur before the ballet is forced to close.

A golden Tibetan horse is stolen from a local museum, drawing Nancy into a case beyond ordinary burglary. Misleading clues, sabotage, and death threats make pursuing the elusive thief increasingly dangerous for the young detective.

Nancy joins an Elizabethan festival's troupe when it comes to River Heights, but sabotage threatens the event. She must uncover the scheme behind the disruptions before a celebration of theater and history ends in disaster.

Antique teddy bears disappear from the shop where Bess works during the Christmas rush. When someone also tries to steal Bess's replica bear, Nancy suspects a larger scheme hidden behind the seemingly innocent toys.

After a friend's cat disappears during a River Heights cat show, Nancy searches for the missing Silver Persian. Her investigation uncovers a scam, turning a hunt for a beloved pet into a case of deliberate deception.

Nancy, Bess, and George visit a spa near Tucson for a relaxing week, only to encounter sabotage and a poisonous spider. Nancy must identify who is threatening the guests before their desert holiday becomes more dangerous.

Nancy interrupts her Connecticut vacation when someone vandalizes Bridgehaven's seaport museum and destroys old nautical artifacts. She investigates the attacks to discover who is targeting the collection and stop further damage to its historic treasures.

A fire damages River Heights' recreation center, and Nancy helps organize its rescue. Missing insurance payments, sabotaged fundraising, and threats against campaign leader Mary McGregor suggest someone wants both the rebuilding effort and her investigation stopped.

George's baking prize takes her, Bess, and Nancy to a culinary institute in upstate New York. Attempted murder turns their visit into an investigation, forcing Nancy to sort through rivalry and jealousy among the kitchen's suspects.

While volunteering aboard a hospital ship serving South America, Nancy suspects that its medical mission conceals illegal cargo. Tracking the clues becomes dangerous when those involved threaten the detective trying to expose their operation.

Recently widowed Mrs. Kittredge begins visiting fortune-teller Madame Destiny and handing over large sums of money. Nancy investigates the arrangement, hoping to learn whether the woman's trust is being exploited before she loses still more.

Nancy helps renovate a San Francisco Victorian mansion with Bess, George, and Hannah Gruen. Apparent hauntings and dangerous incidents suggest someone wants the property to themselves, while a legend of hidden gold gives Nancy another explanation.

Trophies, a portrait, and a cougar mascot costume vanish before River Heights High's softball playoff. Nancy suspects more than rivalry, and the thief's skill at disguise turns her investigation into a dangerous game of deception.

Nancy visits Lake Tahoe, where her friend Katie Cobb is favored to win a water-skiing championship. When sabotage threatens to rig the competition, the friends search for the culprit before sporting ambition causes serious harm.

George's pharmacy delivery customers begin falling ill, and Nancy suspects someone is tampering with their medicine. Investigating the source of the dangerous drugs puts Nancy at risk as she tries to protect the people receiving them.

A valuable film disappears while Nancy attends the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival. Her search for the missing movie brings her into danger, turning a visit to celebrate cinema into a hunt for a determined thief.

Rare books disappear from Bloom's Bookstore & Coffeehouse in River Heights, and Nancy's only clue is a dead woman's handwriting. She must connect the puzzling evidence to the thefts before the culprit's trail disappears.

Nancy's sightseeing visit to Washington, D.C., is interrupted by the theft of a priceless Mayan artifact from the Beech Hill museum. A note bearing a red handprint offers her a puzzling clue to the crime.

Nancy accompanies her model friend Cindy to a commercial shoot, but Cindy suddenly disappears. Searching for her draws Nancy into the less glamorous side of teen fashion, where the missing girl's situation raises troubling questions.

Nancy visits a Wisconsin ski resort housed in a reconstructed French castle, where the library has been vandalized. Secret passages offer clues, but an unknown attacker makes investigating the building's hidden history a dangerous undertaking.

Three burglaries share one apparent connection: Juanita Puentes babysat in each house. Convinced her friend has been framed, Nancy sets out to find the real thief and catch the culprit before Juanita takes the blame.

Nancy visits Laura Passano's Maryland stables for a riding holiday, but poisoned feed and a stolen horse disrupt the trip. Rivalries and opposition to an upcoming fox hunt complicate her search for the saboteur.

On an errand for her father in Bear Hollow, Indiana, Nancy meets a family facing deliberate ruin. An inherited fiddle and a buried family secret may offer clues to a fortune and the person threatening them.

Nancy travels to Minneapolis to help Alison MacDonald, who has inherited an advanced skating arena. Missing inheritance money threatens Alison's ability to keep the Crystal Palace, making Nancy's search for the thief a race to save it.

A Connecticut dispute over road widening threatens a rare bat species, but Nancy discovers more than an environmental disagreement. Threatening calls, warnings, and car sabotage suggest someone will use dangerous means to get their way.

After Carson Drew goes to New York to hear a friend's deathbed confession, he disappears. Nancy must investigate an old murder mystery while trying to find her kidnapped father before his captors can harm him.

An arrow interrupts an Oxford University dinner, leaving a black rose as Nancy's clue. Her investigation into mystery writer Dame Gwyneth Davies's life and death exposes family secrets that may lead to another tragedy.

Police suspect students in Nancy's after-school program of involvement in River Heights burglaries. As she investigates to uncover the truth, the real criminals threaten her, making protecting the children a dangerous challenge for the detective.

Nancy's Big Sur vacation turns sinister when her cottage is ransacked. Her search leads through Caine Castle toward underground caves and a rumored gold treasure, but someone is determined to keep the legend's truth buried.

A Brooklyn park fundraiser becomes a kidnapping case when a performing band's lead singer is abducted. Nancy searches for the missing musician and discovers that the crime's motive may lie in the city's history.

Candlelight Inn is left to a foundation planning a training center for guide dogs. As Nancy investigates the historic property's secrets, she discovers dangers that threaten to overshadow the hopeful purpose of its new owners.

Nancy and George help Bess manage weddings at a Victorian mansion, but frightening incidents disrupt the celebrations. Stolen gifts, damaged clothing, and a sabotaged car force Nancy to investigate who is threatening the couples' special days.

Nancy, Bess, and George travel to Maui for an international surfing competition. With substantial prize money attracting dishonest interests, Nancy must look beyond the holiday scenery to investigate the foul play threatening the contest.

Nancy visits the White House, where George is assisting a photographer during a session featuring a valuable gold statue. When Nancy is knocked unconscious and the statue vanishes, she must investigate the theft and attack.

Someone uses email to undermine Carson Drew's law firm, drawing Nancy into an investigation close to home. She follows the electronic trail to identify who is targeting her father's business and stop the campaign against it.

Nancy volunteers with Bess and George at a village recreating life in the 1830s, where sightings of the ghostly Lantern Lady alarm workers. Investigating the hauntings reveals a scheme threatening the living history museum's future.

A stable fire interrupts Nancy's visit to a major dressage championship, followed by the disappearance of a valuable horse. She investigates the money and rivalries behind the competition while trying to recover the animal safely.

Working with a television news team, Nancy covers the birth of four endangered cougar cubs at a zoo. When the cubs are stolen, the cheerful assignment becomes an investigation into who took the vulnerable animals.

Nancy's English countryside holiday begins with a missing road sign and a near-fatal falling statue at Moorsea Manor. Other dangerous pranks threaten the inn's survival, and she must find the person driving its guests away.

Nancy, Bess, and George visit a South Dakota buffalo ranch to investigate the theft of a calf named Justice. A rival rancher, an animal activist, and nearby archaeologists complicate their search for the missing animal.

An international chess tournament in River Heights turns dangerous when a competitor's sister is kidnapped. Nancy investigates threats and sabotage surrounding the matches as the frightened player is ordered to win if she wants her sister back.

Bess finds a chocolate wrapper worth a million dollars, but the company says another winner has already claimed the prize. Nancy investigates the disputed contest and encounters danger at the sponsor's amusement park and safari attraction.

Nancy helps George make a pirate film aboard a replica sailing ship, but thefts disrupt the production. Gold coins and suspicious incidents leave her wondering whether someone is staging publicity stunts or deliberately sabotaging the movie.

A vintage jacket gives Nancy an unexpected mystery when she discovers a safe-deposit receipt and key hidden inside it. Tracing the garment's history leads her toward an estate, a missing will, and a concealed fortune.

Nancy's vacation at a Caribbean plantation turns into a treasure hunt after she finds an old love letter. Its clues point toward a legendary emerald necklace, while intruders and competing treasure seekers make the search dangerous.

A music festival at Emerson College is disrupted by missing money, collapsing tents, and accusations between rival election candidates. Nancy investigates the apparent sabotage before the scandal ruins the international club's event and damages its reputation.

Nancy visits an Oklahoma farm inherited by Hannah Gruen and discovers a mysterious ransom note. A suspicious stranger and an encounter with a tornado chaser complicate her investigation as dangerous storms gather around the property.

Nancy attends an astronomer's meteor-watching event, only to find his van deserted and a rival scientist hostile. When the missing astronomer returns, troubling inconsistencies draw her into an investigation of his identity and a possible scheme.

A visit to a California seaside town puts Nancy on the trail of whoever vandalized her friend's whale-watching boat. Threats, suspicious accidents, and a hidden coastal cave complicate the search as danger moves onto the water.

Nancy searches the Florida Everglades for a missing volunteer and a valuable Native American panther statue. Clues lead toward a corporation planning a shopping mall, while threatening messages and the swamp's hazards put her investigation at risk.

At a Chicago antiques appraisal event, George's old tape recorder reveals a rare recording by a famous rock band. When it disappears with other valuables, Nancy investigates the dealers, performers, and organizers who could profit from it.

A valuable crystal dove vanishes from a New York mansion's glass-bird collection, and other suspicious incidents follow. Nancy investigates family rivalries and an antiques dealer's grudge, tracing clues to an abandoned camp in the Adirondacks.

Nancy joins an athletic treasure hunt at Emerson College, but warnings, pranks, and dangerous accidents disrupt the competition. Evidence that someone is cheating sends her searching among the participants and sponsors for the person behind the trouble.

Cruel pranks and threatening notes signed by the Black Cat unsettle Waverly Academy. Nancy and George go undercover as teaching interns to investigate, but the culprit soon directs a threatening message at Nancy herself.

A pottery class at a crafts village draws Nancy into an investigation of counterfeit antiques. Local artists appear to be producing fake pottery for inflated prices, and pressure to join the scheme puts other craftspeople at risk.

Nancy and her friends rent a lakeside cottage where unexplained noises suggest a haunting. Suspicious neighbors, warnings about an ancient burial ground, and the property's connection to a Prohibition-era mobster give Nancy several possible explanations to investigate.

Nancy, Bess, and George join a cycling holiday through Ireland, but someone begins targeting their fellow travelers. Two Australian sisters seem especially vulnerable, and Nancy must unravel the riders' secrets while navigating dangerous roads and cliffs.

Nancy and Bess visit an artists' colony after its director receives threats. Relatives who want to turn the estate into condominiums and tensions among the artists complicate the case, while an anonymous informant proposes a dangerous midnight meeting.

Nancy helps run a forensic science camp after its professor unexpectedly falls into a coma. As students practice solving a fictional mystery, she investigates a real crime whose clues lead beyond the laboratory to a dangerous quarry.

Bess decorates a department store for Christmas, but a fellow employee is accused of stealing dresses. Nancy investigates to clear the young woman's name, following misleading clues through the store's busy holiday preparations and shopping rush.

At a Wyoming lodge, a pet wolf disappears shortly after giving birth to five pups. Nancy investigates the theft amid local opposition to a planned wolf sanctuary, questioning neighbors, ranch workers, and a visiting wolf expert.

Nancy and her friends attend cooking classes during a renovated resort's opening celebrations. Problems in the kitchen and elsewhere suggest deliberate sabotage, prompting her to investigate who wants to spoil the resort's launch and its culinary program.

A Great Lakes cruise turns into a case when Nancy learns a fellow passenger is investigating a diamond thief. She joins the search aboard the ship and during shore excursions, where vacationers may be hiding criminal intentions.

Bess joins an opera production in River Heights, where a falling sandbag nearly kills two rival singers. Further accidents draw Nancy backstage to investigate whether someone is using violence to decide who gets the starring role.

While visiting Paris, Nancy befriends a woman whose family runs a puppet theater, museum, and shop. Puppet thefts and vandalism complicate the search for a hidden family treasure that an elderly relative hinted at before dying.

Nancy visits a pony club's summer camp and discovers that a dangerous fall was caused by sabotage. She goes undercover as a counselor to investigate further accidents and find whoever is threatening the horses and their riders.

Two wolves disappear from a River Heights preserve as reports of a werewolf and dead sheep alarm local residents. When sabotage threatens the winter carnival too, Nancy investigates whether the apparently separate disturbances share a human culprit.

Nancy captains a team in River Heights' charity bicycle race, but the money raised before the event has been stolen. With Bess, George, and Ned helping, she has two days to recover it while competing to win.