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c.j. over @ 'The Trillionth Page' was hosting Nancy Drew week.

Starting August 18th, will be Nancy Drew week here at The THRILLIONTH PAGE, full of mini-recaps and reader reviews of favorite Nancy Drew adventures, recollections from the books or series, opinions, and more!

I've been reading The Ghost of Blackwood Hall with my daughter. It's her first time reading Nancy Drew and she really enjoyed it. Read on for my review.




title: The Ghost of Blackwood Hall


author: Carolyn Keene


pages: 178

genre: mystery

published: 1948

first line: "If I ever try to solve a mystery with a ghost in it, I'll use a smart cat to help me!"

rated: 4 out of 5





Widow Mrs. Putney, asks Nancy Drew for help finding her stolen jewelry. Nancy's friends Bess and George, wind up helping her and the search leads them to New Orleans. Mrs. Putney keeps telling Nancy that her late husbands ghost has been speaking to her, first telling her where to bury his jewels, then once the jewels are stolen and replaced with fake ones, his spirit tells her not to seach for them any longer. Nancy notices this odd behavior from Mrs. Putney, and doesn't believe in spirits herself, but choses to humor the widow until she can solve the case. The case leads her to a deserted old mansion called Blackwood Hall, that is haunted by a ghost playing a piano.
With some help from her friends George, Bess and Ned, Nancy solves the mystery and all ends well.

'Nancy's attractive face tightened as she realized that danger might be lurking in the forest. She was convinced that the theft of Mrs. Putney's buried treasure was no ordinary affair.'

I read this book a few chapters at a time to my daughter each night before bedtime. Being a 3rd grader, I hoped she was ready for a Nancy Drew mystery. And she was. She really enjoyed reading it and followed the storyline very well. Some of the writing is a bit outdated, so I had to stop and explain certain words or phrases to her, but all in all, she really liked the story.







Part of the fun about the Nancy Drew books are the creative covers. Here's a few I found. Click on each to read about the story.

























About the author:

Nancy Drew is an amateur sleuth, the fictional heroine of a popular mystery series, primarily aimed at the children-young adult audience, and written under the collective pseudonym "Carolyn Keene". The series was created and outlined in detail in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, with the first manuscripts written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson and edited by Stratemeyer's daughter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. The Stratemeyer Syndicate had a strict non-disclosure contract; writers such as Mildred Benson produced books based upon outlines provided by the Syndicate. As a ghostwriter, Benson was the second most prolific writer (after Stratemeyer-Adams herself), producing twenty-three of the first thirty volumes.


quoted from wikipedia

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Nancy Drew is a movie made in 2007 based on the mystery novels. We did watch the film and enjoyed it too. Nancy's character was just how you'd expect her to be and Ned is a cutie!

In the movie, Nancy is trying to give up sleuthing. She winds up moving to LA with her father, and going to a new school, where they do make fun of her and her 'old fashioned' style of dressing. Of course, there's a murder mystery involving a movie star and the home she and her father are staying in, that she just has to solve.


Nancy solves the mystery, with the help of her friends and some of her housekeeper's baked goodies. And her 'old fashioned' outfits even end up being featured in a fashion magazine. WTG Nancy :)