The Bungalow Mystery is the third volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. It was the last of three books in the "breeder set" trilogy, released in 1930, to test-market the series. It was the final volume edited by Edward Stratemeyer before his death. His daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, extensively revised the novel in 1960. In the beginning, Laura Pendleton rescues Nancy Drew and her friend Helen, not a swimmer, from a boat wreck by during a sudden, severe storm on Moon Lake.The girls from River Heights befriend the orphaned Laura, who has come to the area to meet her new guardian, Jacob Aborn. Mr. Aborn seems somewhat boorish to the River Heights girls, but Nancy, upon returning home, receives a phone call from Laura, desperate to escape from her "evil" guardian, who expects her to do household chores and cook, which seem natural, but when he demands her furs and jewels. . . she calls Nancy for help. Laura escapes, and this leads...