Nancy and her friends Bess and George, on their way home from a carnival, discuss a financially struggling Swedish immigrant, Mrs. Swenson, and her daughter, whom the girls have just helped to enjoy the carnival attractions by being their hosts for the evening. As they are driving, a luxurious roadside estate bursts into flames. The girls park the car and make sure that no one is trapped inside. In doing so, Nancy sees someone fleeing the property, and discovers an anonymous Swedish diary on the ground. She picks up this clue, and as firefighters and gawkers arrive on the scene, she notices an attractive young man moving her car away from the flying embers. At first suspicious of Ned Nickerson, Nancy warms to him when he helps her out of a jam. Ned proves to be a good friend, and is a perennial admirer of Nancy's from then on. Meanwhile, Mrs. Swenson's husband is missing, and she identifies his diary as the one picked up at the fire. To top it all off, the owner of the burned house, Felix Raybolt, is missing, and his wife claims Joe Swenson has murdered her husband. Raybolt, it turns out, swindles inventors like Swenson out of their patents and copyrights, and used one such invention to start the fire.

The Clue in the Diary (Nancy Drew, Book 7)

Keene,Carolyn

Price/Stern/Sloan Publishers

Platt & Munk, Publishers.  1978.  Presumed first edition.  This is a first printing (full number line).  No markings or names inside or out.  Tall hardcover picture book.  Pictorial boards-no dj as issued.  Price of $1.50 at front upper corner.  Full and double-page color illustrations with a description of a different truck on every page, ie street-sweeper, fire truck, tractor-trailer etc.  Light superficial rubbing and light edgewear-gently read.  An interesting vintage children's book in VG condition.  A nice, clean copy.

Watty Pipers Trucks

Piper, Watty

52 page paperback book of BAD JOKES. Published by Price/Stern/Sloan in May 1974 from Los Angeles.

World's Worst Jokes

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

When someone has talent, intelligence and creativity, they usually show up in everything he does, whether it's robbing a bank or seasoning his soup. The same good taste that enables one to paint fraudulent masterpieces incongruously carries over into the blending of white sauce. As students of both history and psychology, we should therefore have been prepared for an accidental discovery made during our research into foods of antiquity: notoriously sinister people ate more interesting, and frequently better, food than did most of their counterparts.

The Lucretia Borgia Cookbook: Favorite Recipes of Infamous People

Blinder, Dorothy and Martin

The good news bad news book

Ragaway, Martin A.

The chili cookbook,

Johnrae Earl

A fascinating and thought provoking book!

I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot

Dolph Sharp

"Treatment for many common ailments, from headaches to lower back pain, by using acupressure, thermal therapy, diet therapy, and herbal therapy using ginseng."

How to free yourself from pain: Treatment for many common ailments, from headaches to lower back pain, by using acupressure, thermal therapy, diet therapy, and herbal therapy using ginseng

Medical Books

Chan, Pedro

Allied Health Professions

W.C. Fields speaks (A Price/Stern/Sloan gift book)

W.C. Fields

Reference

Alexander Hamilton's Real Name was Levine and other Bicentennial Oddities

Herman Hover

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