Super Mystery

{{Short description|Children's mystery book series}} {{For|the Nancy Drew Girl Detective/Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers crossover series|Undercover Brothers#Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery}} {{Unreliable sources|date=October 2024}} '''Super Mystery''' is a 36-volume series of [[crossover (fiction)|crossover]] paperbacks, pairing [[The Hardy Boys]] with [[Nancy Drew]]. Earlier crossovers include a [[The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries|1970s TV series]], the [[novelization]] of one of the TV episodes (The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula), two ''SuperSleuths'' books (each book containing 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 [[Dead on Target (The Hardy Boys)|first Hardy Boys Casefile]], are mentioned. The books are written under the [[Carolyn Keene|Keene pseudonym]] and are told mainly from Nancy's view. Since 2007, and the re-introduction of the ''[[Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery]]'' series based on the ''"[[Nancy Drew: Girl Detective]]"'' series, many fans have referred to this original crossover series as '''SuperMystery'88''' in order to differentiate the two series.

An attraction between [[Frank Hardy (The Hardy Boys)|Frank Hardy]] and Nancy Drew was mentioned throughout the series.

==Series titles== {| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" |+ Titles and publication dates |- ! # ! Title ! Released ! Author |- ! 1 | ''[[Double Crossing]]'' | {{Date table sorting|1988|June}} | |- ! 2 | {{Sort|Crime for Christmas|''[[A Crime for Christmas]]''}} | {{Date table sorting|1988|November}} | rowspan="2"| [[Peter Lerangis]]<ref>{{cite web |title=A Crime for Christmas |url=https://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/series/nancydrew.php?book_no=2 |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=Hardy Boys Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Shock Waves |url=https://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/series/nancydrew.php?book_no=3 |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=Hardy Boys Encyclopedia}}</ref> |- ! 3 | ''Shock Waves'' | {{Date table sorting|1989|April}} |- ! 4 | ''Dangerous Games'' | {{Date table sorting|1989|August}} | |- ! 5 | ''{{Sort|Last Resort|The Last Resort}}'' | {{Date table sorting|1989|November}} | |- ! 6 | {{Sort|Paris Connection|''The Paris Connection''}} | {{Date table sorting|1990|April}} | |- ! 7 | ''Buried in Time'' | {{Date table sorting|1990|August}} | Peter Lerangis & Larry Mike<ref>{{cite web |title=Buried in Time |url=https://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/series/nancydrew.php?book_no=7 |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=Hardy Boys Encyclopedia}}</ref> |- ! 8 | ''Mystery Train'' | {{Date table sorting|1990|November}} | |- ! 9 | ''Best of Enemies'' | {{Date table sorting|1991|April}} | |- ! 10 | ''High Survival'' | {{Date table sorting|1991|August}} | |- ! 11 | ''New Year's Evil'' | {{Date table sorting|1991|November}} | |- ! 12 | ''Tour of Danger'' | {{Date table sorting|1992|April}} | |- ! 13 | ''Spies and Lies'' | {{Date table sorting|1992|July}} | [[Tracey West]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spies and Lies |url=https://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/series/nancydrew.php?book_no=13 |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=Hardy Boys Encyclopedia}}</ref> |- ! 14 | ''Tropic of Fear'' | {{Date table sorting|1992|November}} | |- ! 15 | ''Courting Disaster'' | {{Date table sorting|1993|April}} | |- ! 16 | ''Hits and Misses'' | {{Date table sorting|1993|July}} | |- ! 17 | ''Evil in Amsterdam'' | {{Date table sorting|1993|November}} | |- ! 18 | ''Desperate Measures'' | {{Date table sorting|1994|March}} | |- ! 19 | ''Passport to Danger'' | {{Date table sorting|1994|July}} | |- ! 20 | ''Hollywood Horror'' | {{Date table sorting|1994|October}} | |- ! 21 | ''Copper Canyon Conspiracy'' | {{Date table sorting|1994|December}} | [[Robin Hardy (Canadian writer)|Robin Hardy]]<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=Robin Hardy papers |url=http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4806#c256899 |accessdate=2022-08-09 |website=[[The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts]] |publisher=[[New York Public Library]]}}</ref> |- ! 22 | ''Danger Down Under'' | {{Date table sorting|1995|March}} | |- ! 23 | ''Dead on Arrival'' | {{Date table sorting|1995|May}} | |- ! 24 | ''Target for Terror'' | {{Date table sorting|1995|August}} | |- ! 25 | ''Secrets of the Nile'' | {{Date table sorting|1995|November}} | |- ! 26 | {{Sort|Question of Guilt|''A Question of Guilt''}} | {{Date table sorting|1996|March}} | |- ! 27 | ''Islands of Intrigue'' | {{Date table sorting|1996|May}} | |- ! 28 | ''Murder on the Fourth of July'' | {{Date table sorting|1996|July}} | |- ! 29 | ''High Stakes'' | {{Date table sorting|1996|November}} | |- ! 30 | ''Nightmare in New Orleans'' | {{Date table sorting|1997|March}} | |- ! 31 | ''Out of Control'' | {{Date table sorting|1997|June}} | |- ! 32 | ''Exhibition of Evil'' | {{Date table sorting|1997|August}} | |- ! 33 | ''At All Costs'' | {{Date table sorting|1997|October}} | |- ! 34 | ''Royal Revenge'' | {{Date table sorting|1997|December}} | |- ! 35 | ''Operation Titanic'' | {{Date table sorting|1998|February}} | |- ! 36 | ''Process of Elimination'' | {{Date table sorting|1998|April}} | [[C. J. Henderson (writer)|C.J. Henderson]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Process of Elimination |url=https://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/series/nancydrew.php?book_no=36 |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=Hardy Boys Encyclopedia}}</ref> |}

In additions to the titles listed above, two unpublished manuscripts were written. Book #37 was written by Louise Munro Foley and had the working title ''The Playhouse Mystery''. Book #38 was untitled, but listed as forthcoming on an on-line book sales site.

==See also== {{Portal |Children's literature}} * [[List of Nancy Drew books]]

==References== <references />

== Further reading == *Merrill, Ashley Christine. [https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/bitstream/handle/1840.16/2193/etd.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y The Evolution of Nancy Drew, Cultural Icon: Readers, Writers, and Fanfiction Authors.] Master's thesis. North Carolina State University. 2007.

==External links== *[https://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/series/nancydrew.php The Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super Mysteries at The Hardy Boys Encyclopedia] *[http://www.nancydrewsleuth.com/supermysteries.html Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries at Nancy Drew Sleuth] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20030814203457/http://nancy-drew.mysterynet.com/nancydrew/grownups/books/hardyboys.shtml Hardy Boys Nancy Drew SuperMystery page at Mysterynet.com]

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