Playing with Fire

by Carolyn Keene

Book Overview

Famous teenage sleuth Nancy Drew tackles another mysterious crime. In this case, Nancy is sent to Los Angeles to investigate a case of arson in a luxury hotel - and has a hot time in Hollywood. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671646931
• ISBN13: 9780671646936
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

"Nancy goes to L.A. to investigate arson..."

With the help of her two friends (Bess Marvin and George Fayne), Nancy Drew is on her way to Los Angeles to investigate "three cases of extortion and arson involving Napoleonic relics"--a mini portrait, a manuscript, and a gown appropriately referred to as the Flame. However, Nancy and her two sidekicks barely leave the airport before their lives are threatened when someone plants a bomb in Nancy's purse--and that's just the beginning.Despite the cliffhangers at the end of the chapters and the relatively fast pace, "Playing With Fire" wasn't a very suspenseful or interesting book; but I suppose if you're a Nancy Drew fan and history buff, then you might like this 26th case. There are the usual shameful plugs of other cases from The Nancy Drew Files, like the previous one in "Rich and Dangerous" and #13: "Wings of Fear," as well as the customary case overview at the beginning of the book, which is useful since there are so many characters; it's hard to determine who's a suspect and who's not until the last few chapters--but possibly earlier on if you can differentiate between the characters.