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A brass-bound trunk mistakenly delivered to Nancy's cabin on a New York-bound ocean liner becomes the first clue leading her to suspect that international jewel thieves are aboard.Tags
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When a mysterious trunk is delivered to Nancy's room in place of her own, Nancy can't figure out who it belongs to. She slowly begins to piece together the strange activities of two mysterious men who talk to one another by fingerspelling in sign language. Though Nancy only remembers the letters of the alphabet in her own name, she is able to piece together enough about their activities to determine that they're behind some jewel thefts. The brass-bound trunk itself has quite a treasure- and one that it shouldn't be carrying.
#17 From the moment Nancy Drew boards an ocean liner leaving for New York, she becomes involved in a new and dangerous mystery. A man on the pier gestures to someone on board in sign language. BEWARE OF NANCY DREW AND NE, he signals. Who is NE? Can it be Nelda Detweiler, a young woman who shares a cabin with Nancy, Bess, and George? Mystery and intrigue follow the girls across the ocean; but with her usual ingenuity Nancy solves the mystery and defeats her enemies before the ship reaches New York.
An okay mystery, but automatic one-star reduction for cultural appropriation.
Not as cheesy nor boring as others in the series.
3 Stars
Another of my favorites.
from the moment nancy drew and his friend are aboard
she saw a man in the pier making a signals with someone on board. she knows about that language but at that time she quit not remember all the sign except the letters that appears on her name and she is quit sure that the man in the pier says BEWARE OF NANCY DREW AND NE the question is who is NE?
from then the mystery got started..
the second mystery was when nancy recieved the wrong trunk..
she saw a man in the pier making a signals with someone on board. she knows about that language but at that time she quit not remember all the sign except the letters that appears on her name and she is quit sure that the man in the pier says BEWARE OF NANCY DREW AND NE the question is who is NE?
from then the mystery got started..
the second mystery was when nancy recieved the wrong trunk..
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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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Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase / The Mystery of the Ivory Charm / The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk by Carolyn Keene
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- Canonical title
- The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk
- Original title
- The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk
- Original publication date
- 1940; 1976 (revised) (revised)
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew; Bess Marvin; George Fayne; Nelda Detweiler; Nestrelda Darlington
- Important places
- New York, USA; Atlantic Ocean; Argentina; New York, New York, USA; Buenos Aires, Argentina; South America
- First words
- Nancy Drew swung her tennis racket into a corner of the front hall.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I can't disappoint her, you know.
- 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, 1976 version and copies where the ... (show all)version is unknown.
• ISBN 0448095173 is the revised text. Nancy and friends sail to New York.
• ISBN 155709263X is the original text facsimile edition and is NOT the same work. In the original version, Nancy and friends sail to Argentina.
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