Spies and Lies (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #13) [Paperback]

Carolyn Keene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1992

Working undercover at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, Nancy, Frank, and Joe find their separate missions taking a sinister turn when a Bureau trainee is murdered.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Simon Pulse; First Edition edition (July 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671731254
• ISBN-13: 978-0671731250
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #430,541 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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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW- Suprise Ending!, February 28, 2002

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Katie (Annapolis, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spies and Lies (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #13) (Turtleback)

When Nancy Drew goes undercover at the FBI Academy to protect a trainee, she has no idea that Frank and Joe Hardy are there as well. Nancy has been asked to be a 'guardian angel' for Judy Noll, the senator's daughter. An unknown assasin has already tried to kill Judy once, and the FBI needs some help. Soon after she arrives, Nancy meets Frank and Joe, who are also posing as trainees. They are working 'to expose a corrupt FBI agent in an industrial espionage scheme.' All is normal at first. Then Judy's roomate, Erin, is found murdered on a jogging trail. The hypothesis is that the killer mistaked her for Judy. Nancy decides that the only way she can save Judy is to pretend to be Judy. Set herself up as the target. Both girls look alike. Then Nancy stumbles upon a dark secret which changes the whole situation. The question isn't "Who wants Judy murdered?" but it's "Who wants Erin killed?"

Meanwhile, Frank and Joe are on their own assignment. Though I personally think Nancy's part is the more exciting one, F and J have big parts in the book as well. A good mystery for anyone, with a special twist at the end. I loved Spies and Lies! It's one of my favorite Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys books!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FBI thats the place where where ND & HB are undercover, August 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Spies and Lies (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #13) (Paperback)

This is an excellent book which happens to be the first one of the series which I read.It led to my reading each and every book of that series.Nancy Drew & Frank and Joe are undercover there.Nancy- hired by special agent Burr,to act as a bodyguard to Judy Noll but ends up solving the case as you guess.Frank & Joe-undercover too hired by the Network to solve the case of the watchdog which they do. The book's great.It's super thrilling all right.There's murder,there's suspence and everything a good book needs.Though it needs some romance

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars spies and lies...., December 15, 2002

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mrye (Elmhurst, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spies and Lies (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries #13) (Paperback)

i really liked this nancy drew and hardy boys super mystery. it was intriuging and suspenseful. i especially liked the ending of it because it was hard to guess who the culprit of the crime was. joe and frank's mystery was not as good as nancy's in the story though. which is okay because a lot of times their mystery is a lot more suspenseful. as for the romance aspect a different guy other then frank liked nancy and i really want nancy and frank to hook up so i was disappointed but overall it was a smashing book.