The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #2) - Hardcover

Keene, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0448095025 ISBN 13: 9780448095028

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 2007

Synopsis

Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase hits the big screen in March of 2019! Read the classic book that inspired the movie!

After receiving a call from her friend Helen Corning, Nancy agrees to help solve a baffling mystery. Helen's Aunt Rosemary has been living with her mother at the old family mansion, and they have noticed many strange things. They have heard music, thumps, and creaking noises at night, and seen eerie shadows on the walls. Could the house be haunted?

Just as soon as she hangs up the phone, a strange man visits Nancy's house to warn her and her father that they are in danger because of a case he is working on buying property for a railroad company. This warning leads Nancy and  her father Carson to search for the missing Willie Wharton, a landowner, who can prove he signed away his land to the railroad and save the railroad from a lawsuit. Will Nancy be able to find the missing landowner and discover how these mysteries are related?

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Read by Laura Linney
approx. 3 hours
2 cassettes

Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.

About the Author:

Carolyn Keene is a pen name used by a variety of authors for the classic Nancy Drew Mystery series. The first author to use the pseudonym was Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote 23 of the original 30 books. Other writers who have adapted the "Carolyn Keene" moniker include Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Walter Karig, and Nancy Axelrod.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0448095025
• ISBN 13: 9780448095028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192