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The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives who appear in various mystery series for children and teens....

 teamed up with Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for all ages. She was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm. The character first appeared in 1930. The books have been ghostwritten by a number of authors and are published...

 in this now-discontinued 36 volume series of paperbacks. This is not the first time the trio have crossed paths; earlier crossovers include the 1970s TV series, the novelization of one of the TV episodes (The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula), two SuperSleuth books (each book contains 7 short stories), Campfire Stories (a book of 7 short stories in celebration of the anniversary of the Campfire organization), and the Be-A-Detective series (6 choose-your-own adventure books).

The series is based on the Nancy Drew Files and the Hardy Boys Casefiles universes, as evidenced by Shock Waves, in which the melted keys from the car bombing that killed Iola Morton in the first Hardy Boys Casefile
Dead On Target
Dead on Target is the first book in The Hardy Boys Casefiles series. It was first published in the year 1987.-Plot summary:Joe Hardy's girlfriend, Iola Morton, is caught in a car bomb and dies. Joe is unable to believe it. The brothers begin their investigation...

, are mentioned. The books are rumored to have been written to introduce Nancy Drew readers to the world of the Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives who appear in various mystery series for children and teens....

, as the books are written under the Keene pseudonym
Carolyn Keene
Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate...

 and are told mainly from Nancy's view.

An attraction between Frank Hardy and Nancy Drew was mentioned throughout the series. The books also hinted at the possibility of a romance between Joe Hardy and Bess Marvin
Bess Marvin
Elizabeth "Bess" Marvin is a character in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. She is one of Nancy Drew's best friends, along with George Fayne, who is Bess' cousin. Bess and George are introduced to readers in the 1931 novel,The Secret at Shadow Ranch. Bess was originally described as having...

; however, neither pairing was given a final closure.

Series Titles

1. Double Crossing
Double Crossing
Double Crossing is a Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Supermystery novel.Nancy and George are on a cruise ship, with George being the "social director" of the whole establishment. The two are having fun when suddenly, Nancy realizes of a plot involving the sale of CIA secrets, and a secret agent...

2. A Crime for Christmas
A Crime for Christmas
A Crime for Christmas is a Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Supermystery novel.Nancy Drew teams up with the Hardys to help protect a group of "crown jewels" from Sarconne. They keep it from falling into the hands of two sinister crooks who are determined to get it. Meanwhile, Bess goes on a date with...

3. Shock Waves
4. Dangerous Games
Dangerous Games (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
Dangerous Games is a 1991 Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Supermystery novel.The Hardys, and Nancy Drew, are on the path of the Black Knight, a madman who is sabotaging the International Championship Games, a tournament for only the champions of champions, in California...

5. The Last Resort
The Last Resort (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
The Last Resort is a Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Supermystery novel.The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew are called in to join a team of juvenile detectives that are guarding Mount Mirage, a ski lodge that houses billionaires, playboys, etc. A talented music artist is pronounced dead in his suite, and the...

6. The Paris Connection
The Paris Connection
The Paris Connection is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy Drew helps out Johnny Crockett, a rock idol, with his world tour in Paris, which he is performing for a charitable cause. He finds out that all of the financial details in the tour have been wiped clean, and that he will...

7. Buried in Time
Buried in Time (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
Buried in Time is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.George Fayne and Nancy Drew go to Oklahoma, where a Jim Haber introduces them to Carson Drew's old friend who was in crisis, Dr. Langford. Langford heads an archaeological dig but strange things are happening at the site. There are...

8. Mystery Train
Mystery Train (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
-Plot:Nancy, Frank and Joe are all on the trail of the Comstock Diamond Case, an unsolved theft case, that has worked its way to the interests of a team of "professionals", with a "missing" reward of $25,000. The first step in solving the crime is to recreate the trail of the culprit, boarding a...

9. Best of Enemies
Best of Enemies
Best of Enemies is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.After the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall, an undercover agent working for the highest levels of the United States government system, the "Swallow", is turned into a target for terror, after landing on U.S soil...


10. High Survival
High Survival
High Survival is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Frank, Nancy, and Joe head out to Wyoming to brave the Rockies, and the open wilderness. But Nancy becomes suspicious of all the "accidents" that have been going on in their perilous trek, and calls to the Hardys for help...

11. New Year's Evil
New Year's Evil (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
New Year's Evil is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy and the two brothers head out to Quebec City, Canada, Nancy being interested in a set for Dangerous Loves, a show with romance and thriller elements, experiencing sabotage, and the brothers curious as to why a champion...

12. Tour of Danger
Tour of Danger
Tour of Danger is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy Drew is on a fourteen-day tour at Japan, working on the case of an elderly woman accused of smuggling rare, one-of-a-kind pearls in her souvenir vase. Convinced she did not do it, Nancy finds a far-fetched plot, and a conspiracy...

13. Spies and Lies
Spies and Lies
Spies and Lies is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel. It is written by Tracey West.Nancy Drew goes undercover as a rookie in the infamous Quantico, Virginia F.B.I Academy, serving Judy Noll, the daughter of a powerful political figure. She is immediately in danger when her roommate...

14. Tropic of Fear
Tropic of Fear
Tropic of Fear is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy Drew is at the Grand Hawaiian Hotel in Hawaii, enjoying a cool vacation, when, out of nowhere, she finds a man on the ground, covered in blood, and near her jeep, dead from a bullet wound. Nancy suspects motives of greed,...

15. Courting Disaster
Courting Disaster (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
Courting Disaster is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.At Charleston, South Carolina, Nancy Drew is observing the rehearsal of Beauty and the Beat, a rock n' roll musical starring famous T.V. sensation Terry Alford. Things go well when, suddenly, Terry is attacked by a masked assailant...

16. Hits and Misses
Hits and Misses
Hits and Misses is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Bess Marvin, friend of Nancy Drew, gets a spot on a national TV talent show, and Nancy is, at first, excited. She then finds an amnesiac who pleads with her to help her, and she agrees, trying to piece together the life she had...

17. Evil in Amsterdam
Evil in Amsterdam
Evil in Amsterdam is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Merissa Lang, a journalist talented in investigation, is getting married to Prince Andrei, an heir to the throne in the Netherlands, and Nancy and George have come to witness the real-life fairy tale to come true. But the bride is...

18. Desperate Measures

19. Passport to Danger
Passport to Danger
Passport to Danger is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel. It is the 19th book in the series. The book was first published in July 1994 by Archway Paperbacks....

20. Hollywood Horror
Hollywood Horror (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
Hollywood Horror is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy Drew goes to the City of Lights in California to witness the shooting of Sunny-Side Up, a spectacular sitcom, and a ratings bonanza. But when a death threat goes out to Maria Devereaux, star of the show, Nancy promises to do...

21. Copper Canyon Conspiracy
Copper Canyon Conspiracy
Copper Canyon Conspiracy is a Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Supermystery. It was first published in 1994.-Plot summary:Nancy Drew is in Tucson to watch her friend George run in the Cactus Marathon. Among the entrants is Tasio Humada, a Tarahumara Indian from Mexico, who is also running for his life...

22. Danger Down Under
Danger Down Under
-Plot:Mick Devlin, an old "flame" of Nancy Drew's, asks for her support with Nellie Mabo, an Aboriginal local, who is desperate to locate a revered idol, a tjuringa board, and return it back to her clan...

23. Dead on Arrival
Dead on Arrival (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
Dead on Arrival is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy Drew is called in to assist Brenda Carlson, a journalist at a local newspaper. Pam Harter, a fellow reporter, turns up missing, and Nancy continues on the reporting, only to discover Pam's body at an abandoned construction spot...

24. Target for Terror
Target for Terror
Target for Terror is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Tim An, the president of Philonesia, a small country in the midst of crisis, requests the help of Nancy Drew, who departs from River Heights immediately, to aid in the security of Soong An, an aspiring musician and Tim An's daughter...

25. Secrets of the Nile
Secrets of the Nile
Secrets of the Nile is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys super mystery novellaThe Hardys, Nancy Drew, and her acquaintance, Bess Marvin, are posing as newlyweds in Egypt. The Hardys are on the trail of a banker who is being targeted by a band of radicals, while Nancy and Bess are trying to protect the...

26. A Question of Guilt
A Question of Guilt
A Question of Guilt is a novel in the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew super mystery series....

27. Islands of Intrigue
Islands of Intrigue
Islands of Intrigue is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Alexis Constantine, the daughter of a Greek shipping tycoon, is kidnapped by a shadowy figure, after she invites Bess and Nancy to head to Greece on their world-class yacht...


28. Murder on the Fourth of July
Murder on the Fourth of July
Murder on the Fourth of July is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Frank and Joe get to Seattle to inspect a case of sabotage among a fireworks factory during Independence Day, while Nancy Drew arrives at Seattle to participate in celebrations involving Orca Odyssey, an association...

29. High Stakes
High Stakes (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
High Stakes is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Eileen Reed, a wealthy heiress, lives in Saratoga, New York, enjoying the pride and pleasure of the land with other "famous" residents. But when her husband-to-be, Jimmy English, is framed for an insignificant crime, Nancy Drew, who is,...

30. Nightmare in New Orleans
Nightmare in New Orleans
-Synopsis:The Royal Creole, a restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, is opened for business by Shelly and Remy Maspero. Nancy Drew heads up there to congratulate the pair, but ends up trying to figure out the strange mishaps that have arisen there...

31. Out of Control
Out of Control (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
Out of Control is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Indianapolis is the place to be for the Indianapolis 500, the legendary race to end all races. Nancy Drew is on the scene, saving a fashion designer, and a crowd of supermodels, from their photo set. Nancy, in return, is invited to an...

32. Exhibition of Evil
Exhibition of Evil
Exhibition of Evil is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Williamsburg, Virginia, is home to the history, knowledge, and realism of colonial America, but Nancy Drew and her friend, Bess, haven't come for that. They have arrived at Williamsburg to help Dana Somers, a diver at a water...

33. At All Costs
At All Costs (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
At All Costs is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy and her friend, Allison Fernley, celebrate Thanksgiving at the University of Utah, but when Allison finds out that her boyfriend, Tyler Conklin, has vanished mysteriously, Nancy vows to find the culprit...

34. Royal Revenge
Royal Revenge
Royal Revenge is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy Drew becomes suspicious of Bess's new man, Cass Carroll, who has a deep, dark secret that is hidden with him, and only him. Cass is from Panaslava, a war-torn country with a bitter past. Meanwhile, the Hardys try to follow the...

35. Operation Titanic
Operation Titanic (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys)
Operation Titanic is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy and Bess arrive on a freighter that is on a mission: to raise the Titanic from the ocean depths! They then discover a plot that involves a CIA double agent. Meanwhile, the Hardy Boys go undercover to find a villain cloaked in...

36. Process of Elimination
Process of Elimination
Process of Elimination is a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery novel.Nancy and Bess join many from all over the world to participate in a conference concerning the environment, but they soon pick up the murder of Carl Dubchek, a conference supervisor...



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