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The Whispering Statue (1970)

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0448095149 (ISBN13: 9780448095141)
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English
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grosset and dunlap

The Whispering Statue (1970) - Plot & Excerpts

Nancy Drew goes undercover in this exciting mystery!The Story.Mrs. Merriam has come to the Drews for two reasons. One, she believes that Mr. Basswood, her second-hand dealer is behaving dishonestly and cheating her. Two, a priceless Italian statue – a statue that is said to whisper – has been stolen from the Waterford Yacht Club. Can the Drews solve a twofer?Mr. Drew agrees to let Nancy travel to Waterford to investigate the two cases, but under the condition that Nancy be disguised. So it is not Nancy Drew but “Debbie Lynbrook” who travels to Waterford with her old friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne. Can the threesome unearth the necessary clues before the case becomes dangerous?Discussion.Although the mysteries seem to be separate at first, they prove to be linked and in her capacity as Mr. Basswood’s saleswoman Nancy is able to spy on his underhanded dealings. It is rather fun watching Nancy interact with her old friends – including Ned Nickerson – on the basis of her new alias.The girls stay at the Yacht Club which provides them with fun opportunities to go sailing and swimming.Conclusion. All in all an inordinately fun story.Visit The Blithering Bookster to read more reviews!www.blitheringbookster.com

I started reading the Nancy Drew books when my school librarian announced a challenge to whoever could read 10 Nancy Drew books first wins a prize, then whoever reads 20 books gets the same reward and so on until 50 books were read.Having this challenge, I began reading these books.This is my 6th book of the 10.Having read 5 other books of the series, I started to get bored of reading this series for a lot of reasons. First, every Nancy Drew book goes the same way: She is having fun with her friends/dad then she comes across a clue, then she starts the clue, she then becomes enemies with most of the people and is being tailed while driving, next she will get the police involved and have them help her out, somehow her dads mystery connects to her mystery then they solve it together. Secondly, going back to my first comment, they end the same way EVERY time! You don't even have to read the book to know that in the end the mystery of the... will be solved! Lastly, I don't get why the author would write 58 books about the same subject! Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy reading it... (except the parts I listed above)I would recommend this book to anyone who likes solving mysteries and adventure.

What do You think about The Whispering Statue (1970)?

There is just something about a Nancy Drew book that is relaxing.While the actual story-line itself is very juvenile, it was a refreshing read. I still that a lot of the scenarios that Nancy gets into aren't realistic for the time period (late 1930's), I've found that the books are fun to read. This particular one has Nancy and her friends trying to solve two mysteries at one time - the vanished whispering statue and a collection of rare books. Being that trouble has a way of finding Nancy, she not only manages to solve both cases, but to get kidnapped as well. The book moved very quickly and it made for a pleasurable couple of days worth of reading. I read this for the Statue category in Book Cover Bingo and I rented the book from the library.
—Dawn

Ah, sweet nostalgia. I spent many happy hours with Nancy and her chums George and Bess when I was younger. This particular book is special to me because I have a copy from my grandmother which she inscribed with her name and the date she received it as a gift: March 18, 1943.This is pretty standard Nancy Drew fare. Unlike the books published when I was young, George and Bess don't really have unique personalities and just fulfill the function of bosom buddies. Nancy is as much a Mary Sue as ever, but, c'mon. She's Nancy Drew. Of course she's talented, beautiful, kind, and brilliant. She is pretty much the mold for all of the girl geniuses of the future. In this volume we also meet Togo, Nancy's scampish little dog, for the first time.Best Quote:"You meant well, Nancy, but this time I'm afraid that in your great zeal to solve mysteries you have overstepped yourself."
—Kasey Jane

Maximal Drew. The ghostwriters load this installment of the adventures of the titular detective with members of Team Drew including Dick and Burt and square them off against a host of baddies. Two problems arise. 1) how to keep them and their nefarious doings straight (wait, so the bookshop owner and his assistant worked with Marco De Keer to hire Trunk Ransson....) and 2) throwing in a few more villains late in the standard 20 chapter proceedings. After a while it doesn't seem like the author had the mystery and it's solution down before embarking on the story and had to pull a baddie out of his/her butt to guide it home.The book also gets a little rough in Chapter 19 when Nancy gets herself gagged and encased in a marble statue. For a brief moment we wonder if the whispering statue of the title also had an unfortunate locked inside it which is a fairly gruesome end. Also, the book fails to introduce #15 in the series on the final page - did this ghostwriter not get the memo?In short, a lesser example of the classic series and one you can skip over in your bedtime reading.
—Jonny99

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