- The Double Jinx Mystery
Infobox Book
name = Nancy Drew: The Double Jinx Mystery
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author =Carolyn Keene
language = English
series = Nancy Drew mysteries
genre =Young adult novel
publisher =Grosset & Dunlap
release_date = 1973
isbn = ISBN 0-448-09550-5
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followed_by ="The Double Jinx Mystery" is the fiftieth volume in the
Nancy Drew mystery series. It was first published in 1973 under the pseudonymCarolyn Keene . The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.Plot summary
A bird of ill omen is mysteriously left on the Drew's front lawn. Did the person who put it there do do with the intent of jinxing Nancy and her father?
This strange incident involves Nancy in her famous lawyer-father's case concerning a rare bird farm which is about to be destroyed to make room for a high-rise apartment house complex. Persons opposed to the ruthless take-over of the farm are frightened when they believe they are jinxed by bad luck symbols and they receive other threats to their safety. Even Nancy and her boyfriend Ned Nickerson become targets!
Nancy soon realizes that helping honest people to overcome their superstitions and fear can be as challenging as tracking down down criminals. The young detective's thrilling adventures will keep the reader in breathless suspense from the first page to last.
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