"Join Nancy Drew, along with Bess and George, as they search for missing student filmmakers and discover the deadly secret behind the local urban myth known as 'The demon of River Heights'"--P. [4] of cover.

When an ancient artifact and a little boy go missing, Nancy and her friends are on the case. The artifact may prove that the Chinese discovered America prior to Columbus, but someone doesn't want that knowledge public and is out to stop Nancy, permanently.

When Ned is arrested for shoplifting and Nancy receives a mysterious bracelet in the mail, crimes are committed for each charm on the bracelet and Nancy, with the help of Bess and George, must find the culprit before Ned is convicted.

When Nancy Drew and Ned Nickerson attempt to return a lost dog to its owner in the small town of Nevershare, they stumble onto a much bigger mystery--the entire population of Nevershare is missing, except for one unhelpful woman.

When Hinkley builds a prototype for a new high-efficiency car, he asks Nancy and her mechanic Bess to drive it in a government-sponsored race in which the winner receives a government development contract, but someone is determined to keep Nancy and Bess from winning.

When Nancy, Bess, and George visit a girls' school, they meet the local teen sleuths, the Dana Girls, and engage in a good-natured competition to determine who can use musical clues to solve a mystery first.

Nancy Drew and the Dana Girls try to help a madman solve a sixty-year-old mystery and find out the identity of the person who has been visiting Edgar Allan Poe's grave every year, in order to save a kidnapped girl.