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NANCY DREW DIARIES

#1 Curse of the Arctic Star

#2 Strangers on a Train

#3 Mystery of the Midnight Rider

#4 Once Upon a Thriller

#5 Sabotage at Willow Woods

#6 Secret at Mystic Lake

#7 The Phantom of Nantucket

#8 The Magician’s Secret

#9 The Clue at Black Creek Farm

#10 A Script for Danger

#11 The Red Slippers

#12 The Sign in the Smoke

#13 The Ghost of Grey Fox Inn

#14 Riverboat Roulette

#15 The Professor and the Puzzle

#16 The Haunting on Heliotrope Lane

A Nancy Drew Christmas

#17 Famous Mistakes

#18 The Stolen Show

#19 Hidden Pictures

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#21 Danger at the Iron Dragon

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Aladdin paperback edition May 2020

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Cover illustration copyright © 2020 by Erin McGuire

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Series designed by Karin Paprocki

Cover designed by Heather Palisi

Interior designed by Mike Rosamilia

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Keene, Carolyn, author.

Title: The vanishing statue / by Carolyn Keene.

Description: First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition. | New York : Aladdin, 2020. | Series: Nancy Drew diaries; #20 | Audience: Ages 8-12 | Audience: Grades 4-6 |

Summary: While attending a fancy party hosted by Duchess Strickland, a wealthy philanthropist who owns a priceless art collection, teenaged Nancy Drew finds a new mystery to investigate when the goddess statue disappears.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019026964 (print) | LCCN 2019026965 (eBook) |

ISBN 9781534421783 (paperback) | ISBN 9781534421790 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534421806 (eBook)

Subjects: CYAC: Mystery and detective stories. | Art—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.K23 Van 2020 (print) | LCC PZ7.K23 (eBook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019026964

LC eBook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019026965