The Swami's Ring

{{Short description|1981 novel by Carolyn Keene}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book |  | name = The Swami's Ring | image = Swami's ring.gif | caption = First edition | author = [[Carolyn Keene]] | cover_artist = [[Ruth Sanderson]]<ref>[http://www.nancydrewworld.com/ring.html ''The Swami's Ring'' at ''Nancy Drew World'']</ref> | illustrator = Paul Frame<ref name=co>[http://cocatalog.loc.gov United States Copyright Office Public Catalog] ~ to search: Swami's ring</ref> | country = United States | language = English | series = [[Nancy Drew stories]] | genre = [[Detective fiction|Detective]], [[Mystery novel|mystery]] | publisher = [[Wanderer Books]] | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|hardback]] & [[paperback]]) | release_date = November 11, 1981<ref name=co /> | pages = 192 pp (first edition, hardback) | isbn = 0-671-42344-4 | isbn_note = (first edition, hardback) | congress= PZ7.K23 Nan no. 61 | oclc= 7652827 | preceded_by = [[The Greek Symbol Mystery]] | followed_by = [[The Kachina Doll Mystery]] }}

'''''The Swami's Ring''''' is the 61st volume in the [[Nancy Drew Mystery Stories]] series.<ref>{{cite book|page=70|title=Young People's Books in Series: Fiction and Non-fiction, 1975-1991|author=Judith K. Rosenberg and C. Allen Nichols|year=1992|isbn=9780872878822|publisher=Libraries Unlimited}}</ref> It was first published in 1981 under the pseudonym [[Carolyn Keene]].<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7652827 ''The Swami's Ring''] at [[WorldCat]]</ref> It was written by Nancy Axelrad.

The novel was the basis of the play ''Nancy Drew and the Swami's Ring'' by Laura Shamas, published in 1982.<ref>{{cite book|page=302|chapter=The Swami's Ring|title=Plays for Children and Young Adults: An Evaluative Index and Guide, Volume 1|author= Rashelle S. Karp and June H. Schlessinger|year=1991|publisher=Garland|isbn=9780824061128}}</ref>

==Plot summary== When [[Nancy Drew]] discovers an amnesia victim is carrying a royal Hindu ring, she is all the more determined to use her detective talent to identify him. At the same time, she is working on a mystery for a beautiful harpist.

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