Super Mystery is a 36-volume series of crossover paperbacks, pairing The Hardy Boys with Nancy Drew. Earlier crossovers include a 1970s TV series, the novelization of one of the TV episodes (The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Meet Dracula), two SuperSleuths books (each book containing 7 short stories), Campfire Stories (a book of 7 short stories in celebration of the anniversary of the Campfire organization), and the Be-A-Detective series (6 choose-your-own adventure books).
The series is based on the Nancy Drew Files and the Hardy Boys Casefiles universes, as evidenced by Shock Waves, in which the melted keys from the car bombing that killed Iola Morton in the first Hardy Boys Casefile, are mentioned. The books are written under the Keene pseudonym and are told mainly from Nancy's view. Since 2007, and the re-introduction of the Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery series based on the "Nancy Drew: Girl Detective" series, many fans have referred to this original crossover series as SuperMystery'88 in order to differentiate the two series.
An attraction between Frank Hardy and Nancy Drew was mentioned throughout the series.
Series titles + Titles and publication dates # Title Released Author 1 Double Crossing 2 Peter Lerangis 3 Shock Waves 4 Dangerous Games 5 6 7 Buried in Time Peter Lerangis & Larry Mike 8 Mystery Train 9 Best of Enemies 10 High Survival 11 New Year's Evil 12 Tour of Danger 13 Spies and Lies Tracey West 14 Tropic of Fear 15 Courting Disaster 16 Hits and Misses 17 Evil in Amsterdam 18 Desperate Measures 19 Passport to Danger 20 Hollywood Horror 21 Copper Canyon Conspiracy Robin Hardy 22 Danger Down Under 23 Dead on Arrival 24 Target for Terror 25 Secrets of the Nile 26 27 Islands of Intrigue 28 Murder on the Fourth of July 29 High Stakes 30 Nightmare in New Orleans 31 Out of Control 32 Exhibition of Evil 33 At All Costs 34 Royal Revenge 35 Operation Titanic 36 Process of Elimination C.J. Henderson
In additions to the titles listed above, two unpublished manuscripts were written. Book #37 was written by Louise Munro Foley and had the working title The Playhouse Mystery. Book #38 was untitled, but listed as forthcoming on an on-line book sales site.
See also
List of Nancy Drew books
References
Further reading Merrill, Ashley Christine. The Evolution of Nancy Drew, Cultural Icon: Readers, Writers, and Fanfiction Authors. Master's thesis. North Carolina State University. 2007.
External links The Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super Mysteries at The Hardy Boys Encyclopedia Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mysteries at Nancy Drew Sleuth Hardy Boys Nancy Drew SuperMystery page at Mysterynet.com