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The Secret of Shadow Ranch (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories) by Carolyn Keene
Card catalog description While staying at a ranch in Arizona, Nancy Drew becomes involved in a mystery surrounding a mistreated child. Reader Reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Terribly Boring, May 24, 2003 Reviewer: jtthiel from Nova Scotia, Canada 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.
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