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The Mysterious Mannequin (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, No 47)

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I chose this book because I love mystery books and I really love Nancy Drew Books.A summary of the book is ....Farock sends a rug with a hidden message in it to Carson Drew.Nancy Drew decides to make it a case and find out what it says. The rug wanted Carson Drew to come to Istanbul,with Farock's manniquin. Nancy Drew finds this out and takes Her father,Ned(her boyfriend),Bess and George(cousins),Dave and Burt ( there boyfriends),and Aisha (Farocks lover)to Istanbul to find Farock.
YOU WON'T BELIEVE THE ENDING!!

The story starts when Mr. Drew recieves a rug from Istanbul. There is a secret message woven into it and tells him to find a mannequin of his because he loves her. Of course Nancy sets out to find it. It had such an awesome ending. I will let you find out what it is though.

This book is about a rug who was sent to Carson Drew with no name or address. This was the message woven into the rug:Carson, find mannequin. I love her. Carry her to, well, I can't tell you the rest because you have to read it and find out because I don't want to spoil it for you!

I'll say this about the entire series: READ IT! Haha, this one rates at the top 10 as being the greatest plots...by the way, I absolutely ADORE Ned Nickerson. Bess too. All of them rock. I started reading these (borrowed them from one of my bffs) and at 13 I have read up to book 53. After 35 they start getting a little slow, but still cool. Read 'em.

I liked the book "Nancy Drew and the Mysterious Mannequin" because I like mystery books. This one was exciting because it had so many details, twist and turns, and surprises. At the beginning of the story, Nancy's father, Carson Drew, receives a beautiful rug with a hidden message about a missing mannequin. Nancy is excited about the mystery and asks her friends to help her try to find out where the mannequin is now and why it has been hidden all this time. This takes them on an adventure around Riverdale and then around the world. The friends end up travelling to Istanbul, Turkey where someone gets kidnapped and.... well, I won't ruin it for you but it was great!

A woven Oriental rug is anonymously sent to the Drews from Istanbul and Mr. Drew believes that it is from a Turkish client of his, Farouk Tahmasp, who formerly owned a rug shop in River Heights. Nancy discovers a coded message woven into the rug. The message instructs Mr. Drew to bring Farouk's mannequin to Istanbul and Nancy tries to learn what became of the mannequin after Farouk closed his shop in River Heights. I didn't find the mystery in this book terribly exciting and there really wasn't much action or suspence either. Toward the end of the book, when Nancy and her friends go to Istanbul and the book should be coming to a climax, what do they do? They go sightseeing and the book turns into a tour guide with about one chapter left. There is a different twist at the end of the book, but if you paid enough attention when reading the book and didn't fall asleep you could probably figure that out anyway. This isn't one of the absolute worst books of the series, but it isn't far from it.