An apostrophe either before or after an "s" at the end of a word shows possession. Grammar issues that should have been caught were not. The book's main problem is that it was poorly edited. Wow! THE THIRTEENTH PEARL did not age well and re-reading it just confirms that some childhood memories are best left without revisiting. This book could have been not-the-final book if one sentence had been added to the effect of "Little did she know but she was soon to be entangled in the. Nancy and Ned lose consciousness when they're chloroformed at the close of the penultimate chapter. Anyway, they eventually return to River Heights where all the bad guys are (jewel thieves and a pearl-worshipping cult. This was one of the few trips she took with her father and no other entourage. I thought "Asiatics" were supposed to be smart. Nancy goes on a wild-goose-chase to Japan and disguises herself as a Japanese girl (with blue eyes and titian hair) and none of the Japanese people are any the wiser. Probably a good thing, because it makes no sense. I had this one as a girl, but I don't think I cracked the cover of it. Drew kicked it, ever get married to Carson? Could you really have a platonic relationship with your live-in housekeeper for fifteen years? Drew's death (one book said she died "suddenly" and one other one mentioned "a brief illness" but that's it)? Why didn't Hannah, who was apparently married herself at some point, but has lived with the Drews since Mrs. And there are still unanswered questions, like where is River Heights? (My guess is upstate NY.) What caused Mrs. Jesus, Carolyn, just let them have sex already!
I think what's most displeasing is that Nancy's long-suffering, blue balled boyfriend Ned finally makes an appearance, only to once again be denied any sort of romantic dalliance with super prude Nancy. In fact, the mystery is never really solved, so much as Carolyn clearly took a hit off the bong, wrote a paragraph, called it a night, and then sent the manuscript off without editing it. The mystery is solved at the end through the discovery of some weird cult ritual that comes out of left field and makes no sense whatsoever. People are described as "Oriental" and "Asiatic," and the entire mystery is really just an attempt for Carolyn Keene to describe for impressionable youth the "exotic" customs of the nation of Japan. This one had the particular distinction of not only being poorly written, but also containing numerous offensively discussed stereotypes about Japan and Japanese-Americans. Re-reading this timeless treasure led me to discover that the Nancy Drew mysteries are not the novels of genius I once thought they were.
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