Nancy takes up residence on an old clipper to find a clue to its missing figurehead. She is confronted with fire, theft, and other dangerous situations.
A search for stolen jewelry takes Nancy to New Orleans where she uncovers a swindling racket in which a medium uses her trade to relieve victims of their valuables.
A rare Chinese vase is stolen from a pottery shop. Nancy and the owner of the shop feel that locating "the leaning chimney" will provide the clue to the vase and other stolen articles.
Nancy Drew must use clues in a dead man's letters to find some unpublished musical manuscripts that will save an old man and his granddaughter from financial ruin.
After a near disaster, when the boat Nancy and her two friends were in gets caught in a horrible storm, a mystery unravels in a bungalow that they have found.
Nancy Drew determines if an ivory elephant charm really protects its wearer from harm when she investigates the involvement of a member of the Bengleton Wild-Animal Show in a mysterious scheme.
Charlie Adam's sister Alicia opens a boutique in River Heights. Way more people than expected show up, and the store window is smashed, and people are injured!
The original version - Nancy wins some land in Canada and problems develop when it is believed that there is gold on Nancy's property. Also a subplot about long-lost lovers.
Nancy Drew's latest involvement in a mystery begins in her home town and concerns a synthetic sapphire with a spider embedded in it, and the strange disappearance of Ned Nickerson.
Nancy Drew and her friends go on a ghost hunting expedition and become involved with a gang of thieves who concentrate their activities on collectors of valuable shells.
Despite warnings from a stranger, Nancy sets out for France to search for a flight of 99 steps which may help solve the mystery of a weird dream and a possible case of blackmail.