Nancy Drew Diaries #17 “Famous Mistakes”

Nancy Drew Diaries #17 “Famous Mistakes” is still not listed on Simon and Schuster’s website. Amazon barely has any info on the book, and there are still two releases for the book going around the internet.  I suspect that the book has been cancelled.

However, thanks to the Library of Congress, we now know what the plot of “Famous Mistakes” is. And to be quite honest, I won’t mind if the book gets cancelled.

“Nancy and her sleuthing friends race to find out who is responsible for sabotaging a controversial comedian's upcoming performance at River Heights's new arts complex, where an exhibition of Dutch Masters is being installed.”

It’s yet another Diaries book where Nancy Drew investigates sabotage. Most of the Diaries books have been about sabotage. Even “A Nancy Drew Christmas” seems to be about sabotage. It seems like Simon and Schuster have run out of ideas for Nancy Drew books, which is odd, because the Hardy Boys Adventures series doesn’t seem to have this problem.

I really don’t see the Diaries series lasting for much longer, especially since “Famous Mistakes” is looking like a “Phantom Book” *, a book that is announced, but never published. Normally, if a Nancy Drew or a Hardy Boys series has one of these, it means the series has been cancelled. 

I could be wrong about this, and I will be keeping an eye on Simon and Schuster’s website to see if anything changes. 

*Two examples of Phantom Books are the Fear Street Segas books "The Raven Woman" and "Carousel of Doom". The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers book "The Case of the MyFace Kidnapper" is another example.