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3.9/5 AbeBooks Series 57 OCLC 60345657 Cover artist Ruth Sanderson | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English ISBN 978-0-448-43688-3 Originally published 1979 Publisher Pocket Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by Nancy Drew: The Flying Saucer Mystery Preceded by Make No Mistake, The Thirteenth Pearl Genres Fiction, Children's literature Similar Carolyn Keene books, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories books, Children's literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Triple Hoax is the 57th book in the series of Nancy Drew. It was the first paperback Nancy Drew produced by Simon & Schuster under the Wanderer imprint. In 2005, Grosset & Dunlap reprinted it in the yellow hardback format.
Contents
Plot summary
In The Triple Hoax, Nancy, her Aunt Eloise, Bess, and George begin by going to New York to help a friend. There they see a performance done by the Hoaxters, a group of magicians. These magicians take handbags and wallets from people in the audience- they do return them, but Nancy feels suspicious. Nancy and her friends follow leads to Mexico City, where Nancy is asked to find a child that has gone missing, and then to Los Angeles, where Nancy and her friends are threatened by the Hoaxters to try to scare them off the case.
Book Covers
The Triple Hoax features different versions of the cover art including the following three: