The Runaway Bride (Nancy Drew)
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The Runaway Bride is a young-adult fiction book, and the 96th title in The Nancy Drew Files
The Nancy Drew Files
The Nancy Drew Files, or the Nancy Drew Case Files, is a detective fiction series started in 1986 and released by Simon & Schuster, New York. It is a spin-off of the original series of novels featuring Nancy Drew, with a greater emphasis on adventure, malice and romance. All the books have been...

mystery series by Carolyn Keene
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...

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This book was first published by Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster) in 1994 and has been remained in print since then. In 2001, this novel was re-published and distributed by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...

 Children's Books as a Nancy Drew "2-in-1" along with the popular Case #66: Tall, Dark and Deadly.

Plot

Nancy Drew is in Japan to attend the wedding of her friend Midori Kato, who had previously been an exchange student in River Heights. Just before the wedding ceremony, Midori disappears and Nancy investigates. Nancy’s sleuthing takes her from the worlds of the stolid Japanese high tech businessmen to the alternative lifestyle of Tokyo’s art students. This story takes place entirely within Tokyo, and George Fayne accompanies her on this adventure.

At the beginning of the story, Nancy does state that she has been to Japan before (see Nancy Drew #56 The Thirteenth Pearl
The Thirteenth Pearl
The Thirteenth Pearl is the fifty-sixth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1979 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Although other volumes follow this one, "The Thirteenth Pearl" is the end of the...

). What is most unusual in this story is that Nancy can understand and speak some Japanese, and even more rare, is able to read the characters as well.With one of her friend name Mick solves the case.

Editions

  • The Runaway Bride (Simon Pulse, 1994) ISBN 0671794884
  • Nancy Drew 2 in 1: Tall, Dark and Deadly/Runaway Bride (Simon & Schuster Children's Books, 2001) ISBN 074344096X
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