Strangers on a Train

By Carolyn Keene

Nancy and her friends take their detective skills on an Alaskan adventure in this second book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a classic series.

Nancy’s Alaskan adventure continues as she, Bess, and George disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star cruise ship and explore the grand sites of the forty-ninth state: Skagway; the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It’s spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever was behind the unsolved mayhem aboard the ship has followed them onto dry land. The girl detectives had better watch their steps—they’re on uncharted and unknown territory!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aladdin
• Release date: Feb 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781442465718

Carolyn Keene

Carolyn Keene is the author of the ever-popular Nancy Drew books.

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Reviews for Strangers on a Train

[paperdolllady · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Worthy updated version of Nancy Drew series, nicely narrated, and appropriate four-star novel for young readers.

[katie nalls · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

When I tried to read this book another one popped up instead. Please fix it!

[Pablo Bressan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was amazing I like how the story was like, 2 parts it was unexpected and awesome

[Jon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was cool that Alan was the bad guy

[eyejaybee · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

There was a fair amount of serendipity about my reading this. I would not, ordinarily, have had any interest in reading one of the Nancy Drew books. However, my niece overheard me discussing Patricia Highsmith’s better known book of the same name, and kindly tried to buy it for me on Amazon, but didn’t look sufficiently closely as she placed her order.To be honest, I preferred this version to the more famous Highsmith book, which I found almost unreadable. Nancy Drew is very wholesome and resourceful, and an engaging character. Aimed primarily at teenagers, and probably more specifically at teenage girls, the plot fairly fizzes along. It never strayed entirely beyond the bounds of plausibility, though.I was also impressed that Nancy Drew is not infallible, and has to reassess her approach to the case in hand a couple of times. I remember enjoying similar books when I was a child (there was no such thing as a ‘young adult’ back in that distant era), and am glad that they still seem popular today.