The Mystery of the Fire Dragon

KEENE, Carolyn. The Mystery of the Fire Dragon. Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. NY: Grosset & Dunlap [1961]. 8vo, [x] 182pp. Light blue cloth pictorially stamped in navy; top edge black. Pictorial endpapers; 6 full-page b&w illustrations. Spine ends a tad rubbed, edges less so, tiny spot in lower margin of page 137, else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (light edgewear, slight foxing along upper edge of flaps, a tad so on upper edge of rear panel).

First edition. The 38^th novel in the Nancy Drew series, written pseudonymously by Harriet Adams, and the last of the Nancy Drew novels to originally be issued in dust jacket. When Nancy is called to New York City to investigate the kidnapping of Chi Che, she finds herself in the middle of an international smuggling ring!