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    Dressed to Steal
    Dressed to Steal
    Dressed to Steal
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    Dressed to Steal

    By Carolyn Keene

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    Nancy may not be into fashion, but this is one case she's ready to size up.

    Hot young designer Alicia Adams is opening a boutique in her hometown of River Heights. The opening is being celebrated with a one-day discount, and the press is all over the event. When the big day comes, tons of people show up, and when the crowd presses forward, the store window is smashed, and people are injured! Later, Alicia's most expensive dress is destroyed and her store is vandalized.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateMay 22, 2012
    ISBN9781439112526
    Dressed to Steal
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    Carolyn Keene

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    Dressed to Steal - Carolyn Keene

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    I don’t normally care about clothes, but when my friend Charlie Adams’s sister Alicia opened a boutique right here in River Heights, of course I wanted to be at the opening.

    Turns out it was a pretty popular event. Way more people than expected showed up, and then the store window was smashed, and people were injured! Later I found out that Alicia’s most expensive dress was destroyed and her store had been vandalized.

    Sounds like more than one-day-sale damage to me. I may not be a fashion expert, but this is one case I’m ready to size up.

    Catch my next case:

    Troubled Waters

    ALADDIN PAPERBACKS

    Simon & Schuster, New York

    Cover designed by Debra Sfetsios

    Cover photograph copyright © 2007 by

       Getty Images/Photodisc Blue

    Ages 8–12

    KIDS.SimonandSchuster.com

    0307

    Let me introduce myself. I’m Nancy Drew.

    My friends call me Nancy. My enemies call me a lot of other things, like that girl who cooked my goose. They actually sometimes speak like that, but what can you expect from criminals? See, I’m a detective. Well, not really. I mean, I don’t have a license or anything. I don’t carry a badge or a gun, in part because I wouldn’t touch a gun even if I could, and also because I’m just not old enough. But I am old enough to know when something isn’t right, when somebody’s getting an unfair deal, when someone’s done something they shouldn’t do. And I know how to stop them, catch them, and get them in to the hands of the law, where they belong. I take those things seriously, and I’m almost never wrong.

    My best friends, Bess and George, might not totally agree with me. They tell me I’m wrong a lot, and that they have to cover for me all of the time just to make me look good. Bess would tell you I dress badly. I call it casual. George would tell you I’m not focused. By that she’d mean that once again I forgot to fill my car with gas or bring enough money to buy lunch. But they both know I’m always focused when it comes to crime. Always.

    Nancy Drew

    Shop Till You Drop

    Nancy! Bess cried as I reached her. Stretching her hand to me, she added, Hey, could you give me a lift?

    Why not? I joked as I pulled her up. Once I’d made sure Bess was okay, my gaze flew to Swoon 2’s window—smashed to smithereens. And still the women surged ahead, making for the narrow bottleneck of the door, as if clothes mattered more than whether someone might be hurt. Can you believe it, Bess? They broke the window! I hope everyone’s okay.

    This situation is lethal, Bess said in a shaky voice. Let’s get out of here if we can.

    But Bess and I weren’t going anywhere. The pressing mob made sure of that.

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    #7 The Stolen Relic

    #8 The Scarlet Macaw Scandal

    #9 Secret of the Spa

    #10 Uncivil Acts

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    Available from Aladdin Paperbacks

    Title Page

    This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

    ALADDIN PAPERBACKS

    An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division

    1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

    www.SimonandSchuster.com

    Copyright © 2007 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

    NANCY DREW is a registered trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    ALADDIN PAPERBACKS, NANCY DREW: GIRL DETECTIVE, and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    First Aladdin Paperbacks edition February 2007

    Library of Congress Control Number 2006932238

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-3385-4

    ISBN-10: 1-4169-3385-9

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-1252-6 (eBook)

    1 A Lonely Road

    2 Fun News

    3 Mobbed

    4 Creepy Crimes

    5 Mean Messages

    6 Wily Coyotes

    7 Hidden Butterflies

    8 Trapped

    9 Teen Model

    10 A Stormy Sail

    11 Fashion Plate

    12 One Sweet Clue

    13 Dangerous Designs

    14 Stylish Solutions

    Dressed to Steal

    1

    A Lonely Road

    I need a new dress, George said in a resigned tone. My friend George Fayne and I were on our way home from this fancy reception at the Maloney Community Center honoring Dad’s twenty-year career as an attorney in River Heights. No, make that several new dresses, George went on as I navigated a curve on a dark deserted stretch of road where deer have been known to pounce on cars. I mean, I felt really out of it tonight in the clothing department. Gray—what was I thinking? She stared down at her silky silvery sun dress with an expression of disgust. This dress is so over."

    It’s a great dress, George. What’s not to like about it? I asked, wondering what alien had kidnapped my friend and sent this girl in her place. George usually didn’t give a second thought to her clothing.

    Everything. All the people at your dad’s party looked as if they were practicing for the Oscars, and what was I wearing? Gray.

    "Silver."

    That’s a nice way of saying gray, George said. Sorry if I’m sounding grumpy. It’s just that tonight was such a special event, and I wanted to look my best.

    You looked awesome, George. And what does it matter, anyway? You were there to honor Dad, and he really appreciated that. He doesn’t pay attention to what people are wearing—just what they’re saying. I sneaked a glance at George. Usually, she never cares about superficial stuff like what people are wearing, either. Like Dad, she cares about people themselves—and maybe their ability to run the hundred-yard dash. George is totally into sports. I’m not kidding when I say she’s a star athlete dreaming of an Olympic future.

    But do guys even notice clothes? George mused. Women sort of dress up for the benefit of each other, don’t you think? Like tonight, Bess wore a cool purple strapless gown with pink flowers at the waist. And Deirdre was wearing that weird gold fluted gown that looked like a toga. But do you think Ned will remember what you wore, Nancy? I mean, he noticed you looked great, of course—but not the details, right?

    I had to agree with George. Ned Nickerson, my boyfriend, cares tons about me, and he’s always had a weakness for my blue eyes. But tonight, had he noticed that I wore my blue and white sundress—the same one I’ve thrown on a zillion times when the two of us have gone out? Doubt it.

    Actually, George, I could use a new dress, too. I caught her raised eyebrow before I looked back at the road, checking the dark borders for roaming deer. Leafy green branches swayed in the breeze.

    My mind drifted back to our talk. Hey, how come we’ve spent more time in the past ten minutes on clothes than we have in the whole past year?

    George shrugged. I don’t know why. You’re the detective!

    True enough. I spend a lot of my waking moments nosing around in places I shouldn’t and solving mysteries that stump the police. No wonder I have no time for clothes. So why were George and I even having this conversation? I said, Maybe we’re obsessing on this subject because we wore old dresses to this glitzy party honoring Dad, with all his friends and clients, and we feel bad about that.

    And now we want to change our lives! George quipped.

    Or at least our wardrobes. Maybe we should get advice from Bess—she definitely knows her stuff. Like when she dragged us into Alicia Adams’s store in Chicago last winter on our way to the museum. Remember how Bess bought tons of stuff while you and I bought nothing, and we barely made it to the museum before it closed? But she gave us lots of good advice.

    George chuckled. That we didn’t use. Hey, didn’t she buy the dress she wore tonight at that store?

    I cast my mind back to that freezing cold day in the Windy City—the warm cosy store, the friendly owner, and Bess all excited about her new clothes. A vague image of purple silk flashed across my brain. "I think you’re

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