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The Mystery of the Fire Dragon (Nancy Drew #38)

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"Mystery of the Fire Dragon" was the very first entire Nancy Drew book I have read in its entirety, and I became a fan and tried to get my hands on every Nancy Drew book I can (courtesy of the school and local library)since.

The plot is Nancy's aunt had a pair of new neighbors who moved in her building. They were an elder chinese man and his grown daughter Chi Che. Chi Che went missing one day and in an effort to track her down, Nancy (the redhead) and her two constant companions Bess (the blonde) and George (the brunette) stumbled upon a smuggling ring. The action eventually took them to Hong Kong....not before someone threw a flowerpot at Nancy, Bess was abducted, Aunt Heloise' oven exploded, and George have to undergo Oriental drag. And oh yes....Nancy's hot beau Ned Nickerson is revealed to be able to speak Chinese. How convenient.

Overall, this is one of the better Nancy Drew mysteries... considering that this book was written in the 1950s/60s, its depiction of its Asian characters are surprisingly non stereotypical; none of them acted like buffoons or know karate. Which is very refreshing.

this time nancy goes to china to solve a smuggling case. like all others this is a great mystery!

I think this is a very exciting book. It has many names you have to remember but is is easy once you start and get the hang of it. It only took me two days to read it! very interesting book.

Even though I am a little old to be still reading these stories I can't help it. I love a good Nancy Drew mystery! This story pulled me in and kept m reading. I enjoyed reading about how smart Nancy was in confusing and outsmarting her captives. Any mystery lover should read Nancy Drew stories just for the pure enjoyment of it.

I am a book lover and have read at least a chapter book a day. I have read all the Nancy Drew Books and this one was my second favorite! In this book Nancy goes to China to find a missing girl and uncovers a smuggling ring!

Nancy, Bess and George go to New York when Nancy's Aunt Eloise asks Nancy to investigate the disappearance of one of her neighbours, a young chinese girl who was living with her grandfather. The search eventually leads the girls to Hong Kong. Mr. Drew accompanies them because his case also has ties to Hong Kong and if that weren't enough of a ridiculous coincidence already, Ned Nickerson is studying in Hong Kong at the same time. To be quite honest this book didn't interest me very much. I found the plot boring and unoriginal and there was little action. In the book, the criminals threaten to put a bomb on the plane if Nancy and her friends fly to Hong Kong. So what does Nancy do? She uses a ruse and hopes that the criminals believe that she is not making the trip and then the girls board the plane potentially putting the lives of numerous innocent people at risk. Talk about selfish!!! Couldn't she have at least driven to another city and flown out of there. I wouldn't say that this is one of the ten worst books of the series, but it's pretty close.