Copper Canyon Conspiracy (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #22) [Paperback]

Carolyn Keene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1994

When Tasio Humada receives death threats while running the Cactus Marathon with some of their friends, Nancy and the Hardys investigate his people's dispute with lumber mills in Mexico and expose a maze of greed, bribery, and corruption.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Simon Pulse (December 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671885146
• ISBN-13: 978-0671885144
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,308,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon are the pseudonyms under which many ghostwriters penned the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, respectively. Both series were created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm, in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet, and syndicate writer Mildred Wirt Benson were the two people primarily responsible for bringing the iconic character of Nancy Drew to life in the minds and hearts of millions of readers around the world.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fun Book To Read, October 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Copper Canyon Conspiracy (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #22) (Paperback)

I got this book for christmas and thought it look'd sort of lame. But when I read the first chapter I could not put it down. I read the hole book in five days. It lots of fun! READ IT!!!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A book of places,people and adventure, August 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Copper Canyon Conspiracy (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #22) (Paperback)

Nancy Drew,and Frank and Joe Hardy team up to solve the case of adventure and intrigue. A man gets death threats which Nancy and Frank and Joe want to find out about on solving.... who is giving the death threats? who is setting this evil scheme up? If you want to find out read it! The book of a page turning mystery with suspense and intrigue in COPPER CANYON CONSPIRACY

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Definitely could have been worse, August 30, 2003

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This review is from: Copper Canyon Conspiracy (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #22) (Paperback)

This is one of the more political books in this series; the book touches on land reform and traditional Native American life in rural Mexico.

Fortunately, the political and cultural issues take up enough space that the writing committee didn't have much remaining space to fill with the shallow interactions that the authors pass off as teen romance (although Joe does fall needlessly in love once again, in this case with a character who exists for the sole purpose of having a beautiful girl for Joe to kiss).

(Question: why is Joe's crush always described first and foremost as being physically beautiful, instead of, say, athletic, intelligent, or accomplished?)

This may actually be the best book in this (not very good) series.

The premise is interesting, the plot moves reasonably quickly, and a few of the characters are quite likeable.

It doesn't have many opportunities for gratuitous puppy love, the usual fights about "she's a suspect" vs. "she's my crush" are avoided, and there is remarkably little maneuvering to find out whether this crush "belongs" to someone else.

(Hint to pre-teens: you don't "belong" to your boyfriend or girlfriend. Jealousy and possessiveness are always ugly.)

I could almost recommend this book, if only it had been written with an assumption that the readers could actually read well... but, then, committees (Carolyn Keene is the trade name for a committee, not a real person) have never been the best source for good writing, so you don't expect better than what they've produced.