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Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew is the heroine of the most beloved mystery book series---- Nancy Drew. Since 1930, Nancy has been a great inspiration to the heart of every teenage girls. She is incredibly courageous, intelligent, attractive, independent, helpful, and about all positive words that you can think of describes Nancy Drew. And even if I stop reading a Nancy Drew book, there is still a place for Nancy Drew in my heart. She taught me and other girls how nice it is to be a girl.
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29 August 2001
Mr. Josiah Crowley promised to some of his closest friends an inheritance. But when he died, his friends and relatives did not receive any thing from Mr. Crowley. Instead, the Tophams ( they are not even his relatives or not even a friend of his)got all his treasures from the furnature to the money.......They all belong to the Tophams now. Nancy Drew believes that there is a possibility that Mr. Crowley hid another will somewhere hidden and secret. She decided to ask all the friends and relatives of Mr. Crowley if they might know something about this. Nancy cannot find any clue to prove her hunch......But when she questioned Mrs. Rowen, the sister of Mrs. Crowley, she said that oneday, Josiah talked to her about a hidden will and that he is planning to hide it inside the clock with a moon on the top. Since all the furnitures are owned by the Tophams, Nancy came up with a great plan inorder to go inside and get the clock. Nancy faced a lot of thrilling adventures. But no matter what, nothing was able to stop Nancy Drew to solve her mystery. She successfully found the hidden will and proved that her hunch is right!  [The illustration above is the one found in the original version of The Secret of the Old Clock illustrated by Russell H. Tandy.]
2 October 2001
Nancy Drew once again faced another mystery. Helen Corning, a very close friend of Nancy, asked her help inorder to solve this mystery. Helen's great aunt and great-grand-mother was being haunted by a "ghost" in their house. But suddenly, a man named Nathan Gomber visited Nancy to stop her from helping the Cornings and warned her that something bad is going to happened to Carson Drew, her father, and that she should take care of him. Because of this warning, Nancy was about to give up in solving Helen's mystery. But Mr. Drew said that he will be fine. But, when Nancy was about to solve the mystery, her father got kidnapped and Nancy now, has two cases to solve. There are alot of scary and creepy things that happened while Nancy is trying to solve the mystery such as, ghostly music playing, ghost appering, scary face appering, etc. But these things did not stopped Nancy Drew. She soon found out a way how to go up to the old staircase without making a sound so she could not be heard by the "ghost." But even though she found a way how to catch the "ghost", Nancy was not fast enough to catch a single glimp at the "ghost". After many tries, Nancy was about to give up....But while examining a wall, the wall suddenly opened and brought Nancy and Helen in to an old staircase. In the bottom of the staircase is a hidden door. Nancy tried her best to investigate in the darkness. She heard a moaning cried of "HELP" and with great happiness and surprise, she found her missing father. The Drews are trying to find there way out when Nancy saw the "ghost" appeared in their way. Nancy tried her best to catch it. In the end, Nancy with the help of Helen solved her mystery. She found out that Nathan Gomber is behind all of this because he wants the mansion and he is trying to keep them away from it.....I wil not tell you all what happened and some of the reasons of Nathan Gomber...You have to read the book yourself!  [ Above is the revised edition of The Hidden Staircase #2 |