title: Process of Elimination
text: # Process of Elimination
  
  Process of Elimination is a 1998 young adult mystery novel by Carolyn Keene. It is the final novel of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermystery crossover series.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  Nancy and Bess join many from all over the world to participate in a Los Angeles conference concerning the environment, but they soon get involved in investigating the murder of Carl Dubchek, a conference supervisor. Meanwhile, the Hardys witness the strange and unorthodox theft of multiple bamboo plants from the San Diego Zoo, and uncover a connection to the conference.
  
  