Postby Kyle » Fri Dec 16, 2011 3:38 pm
There's a few I can think of off the top of my head.
For younger readers:
The Kidnapping of Suzie Q. I don't know who wrote it. It helpfully has a picture of a blond girl with her arms tied and a cloth over her mouth though. It features a girl named Suzie (obviously) who gets taken hostage by 3 people who rob a grocery store she's in. She's tied up a decent amount of the time and makes a few escape attempts.
Silent Night 2, a book that R.L. Stine wrote back when he was making a killing off the Goosebumps series, though it's not a book in that series. A guy and girl kidnapper, and later, his brother with them, plan to kidnap and hold a rich businessman's daughter for ransom--but they get his niece instead (hard to explain why, you'd have to read it). There's some good descriptions of her tied, gagged, and blindfolded. Of course, after the ransom call they figure it out and release her...at least until they come back and get BOTH girls. It's a rather dark story considering the usual stuff Stine wrote about.
I can't speak about the Nancy Drew series, as I never would have been caught dead reading a GIRLS' book when I was a kid, but I'd estimate at least 1/3 of the Hardy Boys books I read had somebody getting tied up at some point in them. Sometimes it was the Hardy Boys themselves, sometimes their friends, girlfriends, occasionally more minor characters, and at least once that I remember, their mom and dad. It's not usually a focus of the books though.
If you can still find those things around, the old Choose Your Own Adventure series books sometimes had bondage, often with you getting tied up yourself (well, sort of). They sometimes had helpful pictures of "you," or somebody supposed to represent you, tied up.
For the older geezers (a.k.a. "adults"):
Land of the Living by Nicci French. One I read pretty recently. Pretty much the entire first 50-60 pages is a description by the main character and first-person narrator, Abbie, a 25-year old woman who's been kidnapped by a serial killer, of how she's tied up and tormented by her captor and eventually escapes. It's a different take than most though, as she apparently took a serious blow to the head during the initial kidnapping because she has no short-term memory of anything that happened for several days leading up to the kidnapping, and a lot of the description is about her trying to deal with the situation she's in and not panic and keep fighting and so on. Most of the rest of the book after the first part is of Abbie trying to figure out what exactly happened to her. There's a (much briefer) description of another victim as well.
A Stranger is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark. I was actually introduced to this one by somebody. It involves the girlfriend and son of a guy getting kidnapped and being held captive underneath Grand Central Station in New York. They spend a good bit of time tied and gagged.