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A rare Chinese vase is stolen from a pottery shop. Nancy and the owner of the shop feel that locating "the leaning chimney" will provide the clue to the vase and other stolen articles.Tags
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Guest appearances by Togo, Nancy's dog and Eloise Drew, Nancy's aunt. Their are terms that may not sit well with the reader, ex: Chinamen, That Chinese, Not Oriental yet I wanted to learn more about the Ming dynasty, Chinese pottery and pottery overall.
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!
#26 Nancy Drew and her friend Bess discover that a rare and valuable Chinese vase has been stolen from the pottery shop of Dick Milton, a cousin of Bess. Dick had borrowed the vase from his Chinese friend, elderly Mr. Soong, and he is determined to repay Mr. Soong for the loss. He tells Nancy that if he can find “the leaning chimney,” he will be on the track of a discovery which will solve his financial problems. Nancy finds the leaning chimney, but it only leads her into more puzzles. Can there be any connection between the vase theft – one of a number of similar crimes – and the strange disappearance of the pottery expert Eng Moy and his daughter Lei?
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Dove vanno a finire gli stupendi, preziosi vasi che mani abili e furtive sottraggono ogni giorno ai proprietari ? E chi sarà lo sconosciuto autore di magistrali, uniche imitazioni che compaiono tanto di sovente nelle vetrine di celebri botteghe ? Un comignolo pendente e diroccato è la chiave segreta di un mistero che Nancy Drew, acuta come sempre, alla fin fine sarà in grado di svelare e dopo esser riuscita ad introdursi nel recinto privato e munitissimo delle pericolose e stravaganti Adoratrici della Natura.
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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
- The Clue of the Leaning Chimney
- Original publication date
- 1949; 1967 (revised) (revised)
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew; Bess Marvin; George Fayne; Dick Milton; Mr. Soong; Eng Moy (show all 7); Lei Moy
- First words
- "Oh, Nancy, this road is so lonely! And here we are with all this money. It'd be awful if it were stolen!"
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Meanwhile," Nancy whispered to Bess, "I think I'll join you in the ceramics class. Now that I've learned from Ching and Carr what not to do in making potteries, I'd better take a few tips from Dick on what to do!"
- Disambiguation notice
- 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 the story.
This work includes the revised, 1967 version ghostwritten by Prisc... (show all)illa Baker-Carr and copies where the version is unknown.
There is no ISBN exclusively tied to the original, 1949 version ghostwritten by George Waller Jr. Disambiguation relies on notes in the title or author field.
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