Customer Reviews

The Scarlet Slipper Mystery (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, No 32)

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2 star:		(1)
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This book is full of surprises. I liked it also because I'm a lot like the main character, Nancy. She's adventurous and has good friends. Since I'm a lot like Nancy, it made it easier for me to relate to her and get through the book without being confused.
This book is about a picture of a famous dancer wearing a pair of scarlet ballet slippers. That picture was stolen from Paris. Nancy and her friends soon find out why. Four smugglers hid jewels in the picture and snuck it into the United States. They wanted to sell the jewels to make money. Nancy kept running into these people and started to suspect something. Were they staying in River Heights? Her friend Mr. Fontain she met painted the painting and was a dark person, just like the people she suspected of stealing the artwork. Also they were the only dark people in town. The bad guys were also sending threatening letters to the painter, to make him leave. These people will do anything to keep Nancy from knowing the truth about them. Even tryed to kill Nancy.
Will Nancy survive this mystery? Will the truth be told and the bad guys go to jail?

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries, especially Nancy Drew cases. If you like suspense and adventure, you're sure to like this book.

I really enjoyed this book because it was a very exciting mystery. I had a hard time putting it down. It had an amazing outline to it. I still have a hard time believing that one person could think of a story like this one.
One of the main characters was named Nancy Drew. I liked her a lot. She was the one, with some help from her friends, who solved the mystery. She never gave up, even if she ran out of ideas to solve the mystery. Nancy always kept going. That is the main reason I liked her.
I think the best part of this book is when Nancy Drew and her friends figure out who is doing the crime and why. You will never guess who it is.
The ending of this book was very exciting to me. It was amazing how it all tied together at the end. The ending was also a little disappointing. The story stoped at a bad place. Even though the mystery was over I wish it would have kept going for a little more longer.
I personally think that anyone who is interested in a great mystery story should try this book. I am glad I did.

Follow Nancy and her friends as they solve a mystery at a dance school. Who's lieing, and who's truthful? This book will keep you in suspense! Figure it out when you read The Scarlet Slipper Mystery!

This review concerns the original 1954 edition as well as the revised 1974 edition. Nancy meets Henri and Helene Fontaine, who have fled from their home country of Centrovia and now run a dance school in River Heights. Now the Fontaines are being threatened and fear for their lives. Nancy is determined to find to find out who is threatening the Fontaines and why. This book is alright. The mystery is okay and there is a bit of action. One thing that I did enjoy about the book was that at the end, Nancy participated in capturing the criminals. She may not have physically done it, but at least she was present, unlike in so many of the books were you get an ending like "As Nancy arrived the police were putting handcuffs on so-and-so" or "Two hours later the police called and said that the suspects had been arrested". How exciting is that? It's not!!! The book could have been a little more exciting, however, and it never really held my attention throughout. The book is worth reading, but it isn't one of my favourites.

The book was in the condition as advertised. Thank you. This is a gift for our granddaughter and I can give it to her as planned. Thank you.

How can you not love a Nancy Drew set in the world of ballet, painting and international politics? This case for the River Heights detective is one of her very best -- combining the plight of classically-trained ballet dancers with a gem-smuggling scheme that involves stolen paintings of -- you guessed it -- a dancer! (In fact, the paintings are painted by the male dancer, using his sister, the other dancer, as the model. Complicated enough for you?)

All the Nancys give some information, however trivial, about different cultures, the arts, or other interesting topics. This one, which discusses the history of ballet (and some of its techniques!), painting and smuggling, is one of the most fun. Nancy, of course, is equal to it all -- not only taking only the running of a ballet school in town but even taking over a dance solo in a big charity show. Throughout, there's tension, excellent clues and wonderful (read: bad!) villains -- who sure do deserve what they get!

Enjoy THE SCARLET SLIPPER MYSTERY ... if you love Nancy, you'll love this!

I gave this book a five because I liked the book. Well duh or i would have given it a lower star! Anyway this book had very good action in it. My faviourte part was when Nancy and her friends are in the farm house in Brandon. This part was the most exciting part. This was because they had just found a very important letter when, oh my gosh something happens. I guess you will just have to read the book to find out!!! Also I like Nancy Drew books because you never know what to expect! Well i guess thats why it is a mystery book. Like i said before Carolyn Keene uses very good description!! Claps for her yeah!!!!! Also if you like dance like ballet then you are in for a good one two of the maine charters are into ballet!!!! Thats the only reason I picked up this book, well also becasue I love Nancy Drew books!

i was suprised to see what some people rated this!!!i loved this is a great action packed book.there are tons of exiting parts in this mystery!!this is about nancy trying to find the people responsible for sending the notes to henri and helene fontaine and later on to stop the jewel smuggling and to find mr.koffs brief case and figure out why a women stole the scarlet slippers on helenes desk in the place she works for dancing ballet.this is a really good book despite some of the reveiws i would reccomend that you could buy it or if they have it at the library you
could check it out.

If you like Nancy Drew and dancing,this book is definitely for you! Even if you don't like dancing or ballet, it is awesome!It is a can't-put-it-down book, like most of the Nancy Drew Mysteries.There are some clues and suspects that don't mix and it's hard to try to figure it out on your own. This book is really good and I really reccomend it!

Most Nancy Drews are VERY good. but this one was so boring that I couldn't pick it up. (oppaset of couldn't put it down.) It took me the longest time to finnish it, a week or more, and that's saying somthing because I nomally finish them in 1 or 2 days. The most exsiting thing was when Hannah was tyed to a chair. don't get this one, a diff. one.