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Nancy Drew and her two friends help uncover a gang of swindlers while vacationing in a seaside town.Tags
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I love that the Nancy Drew books are free of all of the junk of recent books, it is clean, no language.
This mystery was different from the other ones because it had more action and adventure. The stakes were higher, the situations were more dangerous. It felt realistic in a way because of all of that.
This mystery was different from the other ones because it had more action and adventure. The stakes were higher, the situations were more dangerous. It felt realistic in a way because of all of that.
I absolutely loved Nancy Drew growing up. This was a series I latched on to for dear life and never let go. Anytime my mom and I would go to antique stores, we'd peruse the Nancy Drews and add them to the collection (oftentimes my mom had to make deals with me on how many I could buy). So, while I don't remember the exact details of each and every one, the entire series was amazing and really fed my love for reading (especially novels full of suspense and mystery). Thank you, Carolyn Keene, for giving us an intelligent female character to fall in love with in Nancy Drew!
This is another one in which the story goes zig and zag. Bess and George have extensive sections of the story devoted to them. Carson Drew has something atypical happen to him in this story. I love the involvement of candles and bells in this story. And the ending of the story is great. A atypical Nancy Drew story that was fun to read.
#23 Nancy becomes involved in another mystery when she accepts an invitation from Mrs. Chantrey, a client of Mr. Drew, to vacation at her cottage in a picturesque seaside town. Carson Drew has promised to join his daughter, but fails to arrive. The alarming disappearance of Mr. Drew and the odd circumstances surrounding his rescue are only the start of a series of highly dangerous adventures for Nancy and her friends Bess and George. Mrs. Chantrey’s story about a nearby Cliffside cave reputedly inhabited by a ghost intrigues Nancy and she decides to investigate. Several frightened townspeople claim to have seen an apparition and heard the weird sounds of a tolling bell just before water rushes from the cave. Will Nancy discover the show more true cause of these mysterious occurences? show less
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*Second read
*A book where I could tolerate Bess
*This is not a "mystery" book
*Second read
*A book where I could tolerate Bess
*This is not a "mystery" book
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Carolyn Keene was the pseudonym that Mildred Wirt Benson and Walter Karig used to write Nancy Drew books. The idea of Nancy Drew came from Edward Stratemeyer in 1929. He also had other series, that included the Hardy Boys, but he died in 1930 before the Nancy Drew series became famous. His daughters, Harriet and Edna, inherited his company and show more maintained Nancy Drew having Mildred Wirt Benson, the original Carolyn Keene, as the principal ghostwriter. During the Depression, they asked Benson to take a pay cut and she refused, which is when Karig wrote the books. Karig's Nancy Drew books were Nancy's Mysterious Letter, The Sign of the Twisted Candles, and Password to Larkspur Lane. He was fired from writing more books because of his refusal to honor the request that he keep his work as Carolyn Keene a secret. He allowed the Library of Congress to learn of his authorship and his name appeared on their catalog cards. Afterwards, they rehired Benson and she wrote until her last Nancy Drew book (#30) was written in 1953, Clue of the Velvet Mask. Harriet and Edna Stratemeyer also contributed to the Nancy Drew series. Edna wrote plot outlines for several of the early books and Harriet, who claimed to be the sole author, had actually outlined and edited nearly all the volumes written by Benson. The Stratemeyer Syndicate had begun to make its writers sign contracts that prohibited them from claiming any credit for their works, but Benson never denied her writing books for the series. After Harriet's death in 1982, Simon and Schuster became the owners of the Stratemeyer Syndicate properties and in 1994, publicly recognized Benson for her work at a Nancy Drew conference at her alma mater, the University of Iowa. Now, Nancy Drew has several ghostwriters and artists that have contributed to her more recent incarnations. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Mystery of the Tolling Bell
- Original publication date
- 1946; 1973 (revised) (revised)
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew; Carson Drew; Mrs. Chantrey; Ned Nickerson; George Fayne; Bess Marvin
- First words
- "Nancy, aren't we almost at Candleton?"
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Nancy smiled and said, "Ned, someday I'll promise to listen."
- Disambiguation notice
- ISBN 0448095181 is for The Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion.
The texts of the Nancy Drew books #1-34 were heavily revised beginning in 1959, reducing the length by 5 chapters as well as modernising th... (show all)e story.
This work includes the revised, 1974 version and copies where the version is unknown.
• ISBN 0448095238 is the revised text.
• ISBN 155709280X is the original text facsimile edition and is NOT the same work.
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