On This Page
Description
Nancy and her friends establish headquarters in a seaside yacht club to investigate strange happenings in a book store and the disappearance of a marble statue.Tags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
If you think you know everything about Nancy Drew via the first thirteen books, you are in for a shock. The author takes Nancy in a path that is non cutesy. She angers family and friends, she is placed in akward situations. All while keeping hope alive that she can resolve the mystery at hand. This is a dark Nancy Drew book, and a book I would recommend to anyone wanting to know why fans like us love her so.
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!
#14 Once again, Nancy faces two puzzling mysteries at once! The first concerns a valuable collection of rare books that Mrs. Horace Merriam commissioned an art dealer to sell--has he swindled her instead? The second mystery revolves around the baffling theft of a beautiful marble statue. To solve both mysteries, the famous young detective disguises herself and assumes a false identity. Despite these precautions, danger stalks Nancy’s every move. An attempted kidnapping, a nearly disastrous sailboat collision, and an encounter with a dishonest sculptor are just a few of the exciting challenges that Nancy is faced with as she gathers evidence against a clever ring of art thieves.
Nancy goes incognito at a club in order to find a stolen statue and uncover a mysterious antique seller's true motives. The field trips she takes with Bess and George are always a fun caper.
Mrs. Merriam thinks she is being cheated by Mr. Basswood. Nancy goes undercover as a clerk in Mr. Basswood. She wears a disguise of a black wig and dark makeup so he won't know she is the famous Nancy Drew. With the help of her friends she uncovers the truth of what is going on at his store and the fate of the missing Whispering Statue.
82. The Whispering Statue A Nancy Drew Mystery by Carolyn Keene (read in 1940 or 1941) I have read two Nancy Drew books in my life. This is the first one I read. It was generally figured Nancy Drew books were for girls and so I did not make a special effort to read them, but I liked the book well enough nevertheless
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
Favorite Childhood Books
1,646 works; 517 members
Crime and Mysteries to Read
746 works; 31 members
1930s
262 works; 5 members
Books Read in 2021
5,361 works; 113 members
The Stratemeyer Syndicate
605 works; 1 member
Stories where trains play a supporting character
13 works; 2 members
Ocean Setting
33 works; 5 members
Books Read in 2015
3,298 works; 129 members
Children's Literature 1900 - 1950 in order
413 works; 8 members
Nancy Drew List
35 works; 1 member
Author Information
925+ Works 201,198 Members
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
Some Editions
Series
Work Relationships
Is contained in
Is an abridged version of
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Whispering Statue
- Original publication date
- 1937; 1970 (revised) (revised)
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew; Mrs. Horace Merriam; George Fayne; Bess Marvin; Carson Drew; Hannah Gruen
- Important places
- River Heights, USA; Waterford, USA
- First words
- [1970 edition] "Nancy, you're kidding. No statue can whisper!"
[1937 edition] Nancy Drew, her hands thrust deeply in her sweater pockets, paused in front of the Marvin residence. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[1970 edition] Mr Holden smiled. "Did you hear that? I think the statue is saying 'Thank you, Nancy Drew, for giving me back my voice.'"
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[1937 edition] "From now on, Togo belongs to me." - Disambiguation notice
- Revised from 25 chapters and 217 pages in 1937 to 20 chapters and 179 pages in 1970.
This work is for copies with the revised text or unknown text.
The texts of the Nancy Drew books #1-34 were heavily re... (show all)vised beginning in 1959, reducing the length by 5 chapters as well as modernising the story.
This work includes the revised, 1970 version and copies where the version is unknown.
• ISBN 0448095149 is the revised text.
• ISBN 1557092605 is the original text facsimile edition and is NOT the same work.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 2,313
- Popularity
- 8,514
- Reviews
- 10
- Rating
- (3.69)
- Languages
- 6 — English, Finnish, French, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
- 27