Super Mystery is a 36-volume series of

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paperbacks, pairing

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with

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. Earlier crossovers include a 1970s TV series, the

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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 ''

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'' and the '' Hardy Boys Casefiles'' universes, as evidenced by ''Shock Waves'', in which the melted keys from the

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that killed

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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

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and Nancy Drew was mentioned throughout the series.

Series titles

In additions to the titles listed above, two unpublished manuscripts were written.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. #

References

*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
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20030814203457/http://nancy-drew.mysterynet.com/nancydrew/grownups/books/hardyboys.shtml Hardy Boys Nancy Drew SuperMystery page at Mysterynet.com {{Hardy Boys Young adult novel series

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