Nancy drew staircase7/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Nancy Drew – The Clue of the Leaning Chimney – Carolyn Keene ![]() In seeking to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion, Nancy uses her courage and powers of deduction and tackles a situation that would have appalled a far older person. Having heard about her reputation for solving mysteries, the sisters invite Nancy Drew to stay in the mansion and discover the thief. ![]() Meanwhile, valuable objects are disappearing from rooms in the Turnbull mansion even while the Turnbull sisters, Rosemary and Florette, are at home in their locked house. Gombet sold a piece of land for a railroad bridge through Carson Drew and now believes that he was cheated. Nancy Drew is alarmed when Nathan Gombet threatens her father. There is a reason that Nancy Drew has been such a popular character for so many years, and you’ll find it here. It’s easy to sit here and nitpick the flaws, but on the whole, I found rereading The Hidden Staircase to be a fun experience. In fact, it was only when I was skimming a page at random that I really noticed some of the issues with the writing. Yes, there is lots of telling and summarizing action, but it gets the job done and keeps me engaged in the story. Likewise, the writing was smoother than what I remembered from the first in the series. They certainly made me care about the outcome of the case. They are decent for a middle grade novel. Instead of Bess and George helping her solve the mystery, Helen is a quite capable assistant. Nancy does go on a brief date near the beginning of the book, but we never even meet the guy. Those most familiar with the series will be surprise to learn that Nancy’s usual sidekicks aren’t around yet. It’s a little anti-climactic in some ways, but it does resolve everything. Everything comes together for a good climax. Meanwhile, the sub-plot with Carson heats up and causes some issues as well. They are very mild by haunted house story standards, but they are still fun. While she is doing that, we get some more spooky incidents. The title of the book might be a spoiler, but Nancy is very quick to conclude that there must be a hidden passage way of some kind in the house. Is Carson safe? Can Nancy figure out who is haunting the house, and why? ![]() Suddenly, Nancy is torn, but Carson insists he is quite safe and Nancy should go help her friend. Only before she can even leave, Nancy gets a visitor who claims that her father, lawyer Carson Drew, is in danger. Helen wants Nancy to help her figure out what is happening, and Nancy is only too happy to go. They are hearing strange sounds and things are moving across the room when their backs are turned. It seems that the house her great aunt and great grandmother live in has suddenly become haunted. Nancy Drew is thrilled when her friend Helen Corning calls offering her a new mystery to solve. “Nancy Drew is back with her mystery case accompanied with Ghost” My Thoughts Another adaptation of the book from Warner Bros. film, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, in 1939. The original text was written by Mildred Wirt Benson, and she has said that it is her personal favorite of the Nancy Drew Books she wrote. The Hidden Staircase is the second volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, published in 1930 and revised in 1959. Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery, Female Lead About the Author Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (Ap(original), (revised edition)) Nancy Drew 02 The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene ![]()
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