The Sinister Omen

Nancy Drew #67

The Sinister Omen

This page is currently under construction - please return in the future for further information. In the mean time, I have prepared a brief gallery of the covers of The Sinister Omen.

You may also click here for a synopsis of this story by Todd Latoski, from the April 2005 edition of the online Nancy Drew fanzine, The Sleuth.

Wanderer "Arch" cover by Ruth Sanderson: page 166 - through night binoculars Nancy is witnessing a meeting between small boat and hydrofoil , involving the transfer of small suitcase

Wanderer "Checkerboard" cover by Hector Garrido: page 34 - after crashing seaplane; however, they land in water and the plane does not burst into flame, her clothes are not torn and she does not discover the decal of the vulture until later

Minstrel cover by Aleta Jenks: pages 7-12 - Nancy has a nightmare about being attacked by a black vulture

Wahlströms (Sweden) cover: recycles Ruth Sanderson's artwork

Armada (UK) Format "C" cover by unknown artist: composition of elements from the story:vulture, seaplane, and the bald, monocled Otto Stroessner

Armada (UK) Format "D" by unknown artist

Forlagshuset (Norwegian) cover by unknown artist: simliar scene to Sanderson above

Hachette (France) covers by Philippe Daure: similar scene to Ruth Sanderson's above, with inclusion of menacing vulture on Format "F" cover

Tammi (Finnish) cover by Pentti Kareinen

FOREIGN TITLES

Language

Foreign Title

Title's translation

French

Alice et le mauvais présage

Nancy and the bad prediction

Swedish Kitty och den svarta gamen Nancy and the black vulture

Norwegian

Detektiv Nancy Drew og det onde varsel

Nancy and the evil omen

Finnish

Neiti etsivä ja paha enne

Nancy and the sinister omen


The Sinister Omen, artwork by Ruth Sanderson © 1982 by Simon & Schuster, New York.
The Sinister Omen,, artwork by Hector Garrido © by Simon & Schuster, New York.
The Sinister Omen,, artwork by Aleta Jenks © by Simon & Schuster, New York.
The Sinister Omen,, artwork unattributed © 1984 by Fontana Paperbacks, London.
The Sinister Omen,, artwork unattributed © by Fontana Paperbacks, London.
Alice et le mauvais présage, artwork by Philippe Daure © 1986 by Hachette, Paris.
Kitty och den svarta gamen, artwork by Ruth Sanderson © 1982 by Simon & Schuster, New York
Neiti etsivä ja paha enne, artwork by Pentti Kareinen © 1994 by Tammi, Helsinki.
Detektiv Nancy Drew og det onde varsel, artwork unattributed © Forlagshuset A/S, Oslo.


Wanderer "Arch" cover by Ruth Sanderson: page 166 - through night binoculars Nancy is witnessing a meeting between small boat and hydrofoil , involving the transfer of small suitcase	Wanderer "Checkerboard" cover by Hector Garrido: page 34 - after crashing seaplane; however, they land in water and the plane does not burst into flame, her clothes are not torn and she does not discover the decal of the vulture until later

Minstrel cover by Aleta Jenks: pages 7-12 - Nancy has a nightmare about being attacked by a black vulture	Wahlströms (Sweden) cover: recycles Ruth Sanderson's artwork

Armada (UK) Format "C" cover by unknown artist: composition of elements from the story:vulture, seaplane, and the bald, monocled Otto Stroessner

Armada (UK) Format "D" by unknown artist	Forlagshuset (Norwegian) cover by unknown artist: simliar scene to Sanderson above

Hachette (France) covers by Philippe Daure: similar scene to Ruth Sanderson's above, with inclusion of menacing vulture on Format "F" cover

Tammi (Finnish) cover by Pentti Kareinen

Language	Foreign Title	Title's translation
French	Alice et le mauvais présage	Nancy and the bad prediction
Swedish	Kitty och den svarta gamen	Nancy and the black vulture
Norwegian	Detektiv Nancy Drew og det onde varsel	Nancy and the evil omen
Finnish	Neiti etsivä ja paha enne	Nancy and the sinister omen