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The Secret of the Old Clock: 80th Anniversary Limited Edition (Nancy Drew Mysteries Book 1) Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level3 - 7
- Lexile measure760L
- PublisherGrosset & Dunlap
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1959
- ISBN-13978-0448095011
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About the Author
Laura Linney's extensive film credits include her Academy Award–nominated role in You Can Count on Me, as well as The Truman Show, Absolute Power, Primal Fear, and The Mothman Prophecies. She has also appeared on Broadway in The Crucible and starred in the critically acclaimed PBS miniseries Tales of the City. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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- ASIN : B001R11CJY
- Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap (January 1, 1959)
- Publication date : January 1, 1959
- Language : English
- File size : 2429 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 192 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0448095017
- Best Sellers Rank: #49,489 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon are the pseudonyms under which many ghostwriters penned the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, respectively. Both series were created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm, in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet, and syndicate writer Mildred Wirt Benson were the two people primarily responsible for bringing the iconic character of Nancy Drew to life in the minds and hearts of millions of readers around the world.
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The book starts out with Nancy rescuing a little girl, Judy who runs into the street. She makes it safely across the road but falls down into a river. Nancy takes Judy home and meets her great-aunts. They tell her about a relative named Josiah Crowley who had helped them in the past with their finances. Prior to his death, he promised to remember them in his will. Instead, only one will was found and in it he left everything to his wealthy relative Richard Topham. They believe there has to be a second will that no one has found.
While Nancy is still in Judy's great-aunts' home, they discover some items are missing from the home. The two women believe that the men who knocked on their door and asked if they had old furniture to sell, were the ones who stole from them.
Nancy's journey leads her to meet more of Josiah Crowley's relatives who were told that he'd remember them in his will. Most of his relatives were friendly, down to earth people, except for his cousin Richard Topham's two daughters, Ada and Isabel. They are the type of people who feel as if the world owes them something and that everyone else is beneath them. Even his wife is snooty, but oh how the might fall at the end of the book.
Nancy is a very likable character who has a caring and compassionate heart. Her determination and strong will for the truth leads her not only to solve the mystery of the missing will, but help many of Josiah Crowley's relatives who would not have received help otherwise.
If you like a good mystery that never gets old, then I'd recommend reading this book.
Yes, they contain outmoded terms and dialogue which today are considered "racist." However, they aren't nearly as offensive as some would have you believe. [Most of the dialogue spoken by people of color is very stereotypical and embarrassing now, but reflects the time period in which they were written. Not cool, but no worse than any film from the 1930s.] They must be read in context, and definitely require adult supervision.
What is mostly present, however is the classic Nancy Drew. Smart, quick-thinking and capable in times of stress. Not the "girly-girl" softer Nancy of the edited versions. Nancy drives her roadster with extreme skill, can change a tire without a moments hesitation or needing the help of any man, and is a strong-willed champion of equity. She also knows how to pick a lock with a hairpin .
In context, these are excellent reads with action, suspense, and plenty of mortal danger for the heroine to overcome. You just have to gloss over the 1930s stereotypes. If there ever was such a thing as "PG" ratings for YA novels, this would be one.
Recommended, with caveats.
I needed a serious for my granddaughter for the summer.
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- I was a huge fan during my school days and had read every title that was there at the library. Bought this for old times sake.
- Hardbound book with a few black and white drawings relevant to the story.
- In this Nancy Drew tries to tries to recover a lost will.
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Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on November 13, 2018
- I was a huge fan during my school days and had read every title that was there at the library. Bought this for old times sake.
- Hardbound book with a few black and white drawings relevant to the story.
- In this Nancy Drew tries to tries to recover a lost will.
Don't forgot to press the 'helpful' button of the review has been :)







