Nancy's Mysterious Letter (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Book 8)

True, I love all Nancy Drew books and would rate each one 5 or 4 stars, but this one earned it. Nancy recieves a letter for a heiress in England, by the name of Nancy Smith Drew! She intends to marry a man named Edgar Nixan, brother of Ira Nixan, an old friend of the Drew's. Little does Nancy Smith Drew know, Edgar Nixan is not who she expects him to be! This was a wounderful book and i recomend it to anyone.

I thought it was a awesome book, especially if you love mysteries and old fashioned fun. When I read it, I just couldn't take my eyes off of it. It is fun, frightening, and wonderfully entertainig. at first, I thought I was going to be scared to death, but it was really cool. I totally recomend it.

When beloved teen sleuth Nancy Drew receives a mysterious letter from London informing her that she is the heir to a fortune, she sets out to find another person named Nancy Drew, who is the real heir to the fortune. But what she finds is mystery in every turn.This was an exciting Nancy Drew mystery, that young readers will relish in. They will get to join Nancy on a mystery of a lifetime, and see if they can solve the case before Nancy herself. A very enjoyable book, and a must have for Nancy Drew fans everywhere.Erika Sorocco

This story was a really suspenseful book. Nancy Drew recieves a letter from England about a large sum of money. She relizes that there must be another Nancy Drew. She starts looking for this other Nancy Drew and find out that a man is engaged to merry her and then take her money. Will Nancy find this mysterious Nancy Drew? Will she be able to stop the wedding? All of these questions will be answered in this book.

The Applewood Publishing Company's original version is the true, original story first published in the 1930's. Don't waste your time with the horrid (in my opinion) re-written, condensed versions that came out later. This was actually written by a man from what I have read! The original author of the series, Mildred Wirt Benson, was not asked to write this one. I read in the terrific book "Rediscovering Nancy Drew" by Carolyn Stewart Dyer that Benson and the Stratemyer Syndicate (who published the Nancy Drew series) had many conflicts over Nancy's character and how she should write the series instead of just letting her author the books. Mildred Wirt Benson later returned to write the 11th book of the series and resumed until #25, and then her last one for the series was #30. Stratemeyer also argued with man who wrote this mystery for the series in Benson's absence. I believe #8,9,10 were all written by the same male writer who also wrote screenplays for movies. This is an excellent story, and I heartily enjoy all of the original versions. They are far superior to the low-rent rewritten versions. Even as a child reading the series 20 years ago I enjoyed the orginal 30's versions of the series over the faster-paced but trashy re-written versions. I remember feeling as though my intelligence was being insulted with the yellow-bound rewrites, so I searched the shelves at the library for the old-school versions. I am enjoying buying these old original versions for my collection, and rereading them when I have a little extra time.