In a response to a friend's call for help, Nancy's father, a lawyer, asks her to travel to mysterious Crocodile Island with her friends Bes and George to study the reptiles and try to uncover a group of suspected poachers.
Upon their arrival in Florida, the girls are kidnapped but cleverly escape to pursue their detective work. Dangers mount as they cope with reptiles, enemy boats, and exciting chases after the men who are responsible for a sinister racket that involves many unsuspecting victims. In the end, Nancy makes a bold move to untangle the mass of clues, but she and Ned become imprisoned in the enemy's submarine and are held for ransom!
| ISBN: | 9780448095554 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1978 |
| Author: | Carolyn Keene |
| Publisher: | Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 180 pages |
| Series: | Her Nancy Drew Mystery Stories ; 55 |
| Genres: |
Crime & Mystery Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women Thrillers Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |