The Double Jinx Mystery

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The Double Jinx Mystery
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Author Carolyn Keene
Language English
Series Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
Genre Juvenile literature
Publisher Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date
1973
Pages180
ISBN 0-448-09550-5
OCLC 707071
LC Class PZ7.K23 Nan no. 50
Preceded by The Secret of Mirror Bay  
Followed by Mystery of the Glowing Eye  

The Double Jinx Mystery is the fiftieth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1973 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. [1]

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Plot summary

This volume details the story of a family zoo and aviary, believed to have been jinxed by people out to take their land for high rise development. Nancy Drew and her friends must get to the bottom of the mystery, before they are jinxed themselves.

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