What would Nancy do?
For this week’s LitWit challenge I’m still giving away the set of four Nancy Drew Books.
Here’s the situation. Intrepid girl sleuth Nancy Drew comes to Manila to investigate a mystery.
What mystery? Better yet, which mystery?
Post the title of the Nancy Drew adventure and a short synopsis.
Example: Nancy Drew and the House in Foster City. While visiting friends in Manila, Nancy hears about a haunted house in the San Francisco Bay Area. Apparently its owner had committed media suicide. It is said that during the full moon, a ghost walks through the rooms groaning, “My lawyer can answer that. . .So sue me. . .” On her return to the US, our girl detective takes a side trip to SF and discovers that the house. . .has disappeared! Or did it ever exist in the first place?
We’re accepting entries until 11:59 pm on Saturday, September 26. The weekly LitWit challenge is brought to you by National Bookstore.
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September 21st, 2009 at 20:05
Nancy Drew and the Antique Aswang Affair
Teen sleuth Nancy Drew visits a Visayan hacienda upon the invitation of one of her bosom friends, Teresa, a sugar heiress. On her arrival, Nancy is greeted by horrifying news that one of the hacienda’s foremen has been found dead in the fields, his liver missing. The air is thick with whispers of aswang abductions.
Nancy soon discovers a shocking amount of similar deaths, leading her to chase the trail of an international organ transplant syndicate preying on unknowing locals. Navigating the frustrating maze of Philippine airports and Philippine hospitals, Nancy realizes that her sleuthing skills just might have met their biggest obstacle yet: Pinoy corruption.
September 21st, 2009 at 21:50
I loved Nancy Drew books! Here’s my entry.
Nancy Drew and the Eerie painting
Nancy Drew is visiting her friend Ira’s house. Ira reveals that she asked Nancy to come over because a recently acquired painting and her father had disappeared! The only clue she has to show Nancy is a confirmation e-mail from a hotel in Manila. Ira pleads with Nancy to go with her to Manila and search for her father and the painting.
September 22nd, 2009 at 03:23
Nancy Drew and the Lady of Laoakan Road
While vacationing at a relative’s old house in Baguio, Nancy and her friends encounter the ghost of Laoakan Road. Will they solve the mystery in time or will they be trapped in the road’s maze forever?
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PS: Why only Nancy Drew? You should have Hardy Boys too :D
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:29
Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Balete Drive, The Spring Break Edition
Nancy Drew received an invitation from her pen pal, Kimmy, to spend her spring break at the Philippines saying that she has a possible case that might just pique her interest. Enclosed in the enveloped was a dried twig, the first clue in the puzzle. As expected, Nancy went to the Philippines together with Ned, George and Bess only to find out that Kimmy has been kidnapped! A crumpled note saying: “Meet me at the Balete Drive…†was carelessly tossed on the floor. With time running out, will Nancy be able to save her pen pal from the hands of her abductor? Does Nancy know that she will be facing the unknown at the Balete Drive? Can she go out of there alive? Find out in this exciting edition.
September 22nd, 2009 at 18:26
Nancy Drew and Her Mysterious Sex Video
Nancy drew just arrived in Cebu City to attend her mother’s cousin’s wedding. To get through jet lag and check an update on the pending case she’s investigating about a live female midget in Wyoming who got caught in tape disappearing while trying to wear some sort of a silver ring, she went to the nearest McDonald’s at an IT Park to get free wifi. She logged in on her facebook when an unsolicited notification popped out to her screen. A video invite. Curious, she clicked on the video, buffered, and saw to her calm surprise a girl gyrating on some portly old man’s lap.
While Nancy knew the face couldn’t be anyone but hers, the video girl’s lightning scar on her nape tells her it might be not.
September 22nd, 2009 at 19:55
Nancy Drew and The Secret of the Film Center
Titian-haired teenage detective Nancy Drew accompanies her father in a diplomatic trip in Manila with her friends Bess and George. The ambassador welcomes her dad – being an old friend – and entrusted to him a sapphire necklace that will be sent back to America.
During the grand reopening of the Manila Film Center, her father gets abducted by mysterious men. Security shake their heads in disbelief as no one has left the room, or the building, and are suspecting that ghosts and lost souls of the Film Center workers are taking their revenge and are abducting guests. The abductors leave a note to the ambassador: the lesson is, nothing leaves the vault.
Nancy and her friends needs to find poor, possibly suffocating dad in the rooms of the haunted film center, while pondering: what does this note mean? And what does the initials “IRM,” engraved at the back of the necklace, mean? Are Nancy and her friends uncovering a mystery bigger than their own?
(Also, can you guess who the special guest is?)
September 22nd, 2009 at 19:58
Eep, “need.”
September 24th, 2009 at 11:30
Nancy Drew and the Bogus Doctor
Nancy Drew visits the Philippines to get a tan in Boracay and have her nose “enhanced” as her olfactory nerves were damaged from the last mystery she solved. On her trip to Manila, she met a well-known doctor who has local celebrities as clients.
On the day of Nancy’s surgery, she finds out that the doctor is a pseudo-surgeon! Nancy couldn’t believe herself! Her aptitude for sensing mysteries must’ve been affected by her injured nose. How could she not notice that when she’d always find the doctor’s face look…weird. Nancy knows that she has to get out of the doctor’s clinic ASAP and save herself and Filipino celebrities from the doctor who is addicted to plastic surgery and hot young men…
September 24th, 2009 at 11:31
please ignore my first entry. thanks :)
September 24th, 2009 at 14:02
Nancy Drew and What May Be Her Last Adventure
At the invitation of a Fan Club, ND went on an all-expenses paid trip to the Philippines. It was fortuitous that she was in Manila on the 37th anniversary of the declaration of martial law; and on one of her tours, she chanced upon a militant group shouting their lungs off about martial law happening in its de facto form under the Arroyo administration.
She got off her vehicle to mingle with the rallyistas and had a grand time learning about extrajudicial killings, all-out legal offensives against know leaders of underground and aboveground organizations, and of course, enforced disappearances. She was even caught on cam by local news orgs. Indeed, she was news!
Her natural curiosity brought her to the inner sanctum of the Philippines’ most powerful (which are either political figures or showbiz celebs or both)
Fast forward to the latest headline on Abante Tonite: NANCY DREW DI MATAGPUAN!
September 24th, 2009 at 23:21
Nancy Drew and the mysterious killing of the pirated dvd vendors
A mysterious disappearance of the most prominent dvd vendors in quiapo forced the NBI to seek the help of the greatest detective in the world, Nancy Drew. However, the task is not easy because the journey from the airport to quiapo itself is a big task already (the traffic, the rude jeepney drivers, etc.). Upon arriving at the scene, and collecting testimonies from, jeepney barkers, vendors, etc, she was able to find out that the people suspects that a certain “chairman” might have a hand in the disappearance of the vendors.
It was easy to find this chairman, but getting close to him is the hard part. After all, he was a celebrity and a host of a famous game show. Many people surrounds him all the time. Because of this, she must resort to a different tactic. A desperate attempt to get close to the chairman and obtain some clues/answers from him.
She must learn to dance the “Papaya”!
September 25th, 2009 at 15:03
here’s my entry:
Title: Nancy Drew and Imelda’s Jewels
Circa 1987- Philippines just freed itself from a dictator; the new administration plans an exhibit for the rare and fabulous jewelry collection of the former dictator’s First Lady.
Nancy is visiting the Philippines with her father as part of American delegation invited to have first glimpsed of the fabulous collection. On the day of the exhibition excitement fills the air but to all guests’ chagrin…. key pieces of the jewelry collection vanished right before their eyes.
Is this just a well planned heist or part of a well thought conspiracy- part of more sinister plan? What would be Nancy’s role in finding the missing jewels? What would she find inside the closets of Malacanang?
September 25th, 2009 at 15:43
Nancy Drew and the Mysterious Black Books
While finishing a year as an exchange student at a university in Manila, Nancy Drew encounters a library where a lot of books went missing every day. At first she finds this not unusual, since borrowers sometimes fail to return books on time. But as days go by, students and professors went missing, too, with all of them reportedly being last seen going out of the library.
Nancy Drew doesn’t know where to start investigating. Every day, missing books keep piling up. And every week, either a student or a teacher disappears after going out of the library. But as our teen investigator digs deeper on the case, she learns that the missing students and teachers disappeared after returning a black volume of “The Adventures of the Black-Hooded Journeyman.â€
The mysterious book series has 12 volumes. Ten volumes were already missing at the same time the seven students and three teachers disappeared. Can Nancy Drew solve the mystery of the black books before the last two volumes vanish—as well as its two borrowers?
September 26th, 2009 at 02:34
Nancy Drew and the Cinderella Man’s Shoes
Nancy Drew and her friends just finished slurping on the Best Tom Yum Kung on a global city in the Philippines; and boy they were farting fire after! Before calling it a night, our heroine bumped into three of four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – one just recently celebrated the emancipation of BeBe years after portraying a Mistah but dreaming she were Cinderella; one not a stranger to the numbers game and stupidly attaches himself to Cinderella Man after boxing matches; and one who is as scary as Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters rolled into one.
On a nearby high street, a thick crowd surrounds Cinderella Man’s shoes amid the heavy downpour. What is the mystery behind these shoes that everybody else wants to get their hands on? Can the jueteng lord horseman decode the numbers 2, 5, and 9? And more importantly, is the Cinderella Man the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse?
September 26th, 2009 at 13:44
Nancy Drew and the Lantern-Maker
While on a Christmas vacation in the Philippines, Nancy Drew and her father’s friend – who is her host — drive to Pampanga to witness the Giant Lantern Festival. Awed by the beauty of the colorful and bright lanterns on display, our teen investigator decides to buy one as a souvenir. Her father’s friend takes her to Mang Kepweng’s Lantern Store, said to be the best place to buy the prettiest lantern in the province owned by the most famous lantern-maker in town. There, they meet the gray-haired, frail-looking Mang Kepweng, who easily gives Nancy Drew a small lantern for free.
Back in the United States, Nancy Drew quickly hangs her lantern in front of their house. When she opens the lantern lights, she suddenly gets visions about people getting into accidents upon purchasing Mang Kepweng’s lanterns. What is the mystery behind Mang Kepweng and his beautiful lanterns? And is she in danger like the people in her visions?