THE SECRET OF CANDLELIGHT INN PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Carolyn Keene | 160 pages | 08 Sep 1998 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9780671000523 | English | New York, United States The Secret of Candlelight Inn - Carolyn Keene - Google Books Volumes 17 and 24 appear together as one, as they were not revised until the mids. The books feature the original dust jacket art, original illustrations although not scattered through the text , original texts, and duplication binding of the early Nancy Drew format. Many of the volumes contain forewords from adult author fans of the series, such as Sara Paretsky. Applewood issued original series titles up to 21, The Secret in the Old Attic. Although Volumes 22 and 23, The Clue in the Crumbling Wall and The Mystery of the Tolling Bell, respectively, were featured in the — catalogue, these additional titles were not ultimately published as company representatives stated that sales of later volumes had tapered and plans to extend the line were discontinued in Reprints of several early volumes remain available directly from Applewood. In late , Literarture, licensed by publisher Simon and Schuster, began releasing prints of classic Nancy Drew dust jacket artwork by Russell Tandy, Bill Gillies and Rudy Nappi derived from pristine vintage art elements and, in some cases, following extensive research, the original paintings themselves. In early , Grosset and Dunlap began retailing special volumes of Nancy Drew mysteries with original artwork but revised content in different product assortments and packaging. Super Mysteries. My Dashboard Get Published. Sign in with your eLibrary Card close. Flag as Inappropriate. Email this Article. Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. The series and novels. Werewolf in a Winter Wonderland The Slumber Party Secret , etc. Sleepover Sleuths , etc. New Lives, New Loves , etc. Where's Nancy? The Demon of River Heights. Lights, Camera, Curses Resorting to Danger Funding for USA. Congress, E-Government Act of Crowd sourced content that is contributed to World Heritage Encyclopedia is peer reviewed and edited by our editorial staff to ensure quality scholarly research articles. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. All rights reserved. Flag as Inappropriate This article will be permanently flagged as inappropriate and made unaccessible to everyone. Email this Article Email Address:. World Heritage Encyclopedia. The Secret of the Old Clock. Mildred Wirt Benson. The Hidden Staircase. The Bungalow Mystery. The Mystery at Lilac Inn. The Secret at Shadow Ranch. The Secret of Red Gate Farm. The Clue in the Diary. Nancy's Mysterious Letter. The Sign of the Twisted Candles. The Password to Larkspur Lane. The Clue of the Broken Locket. The Message in the Hollow Oak. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. Characters in this story are lovely in mind and spirit, compassionate and honest. They draw a reader in and make us want to have them as friends and neighbors. Nora is intelligent and sensitive; she is the kind of friend we all want and need. The addition of Sheldon to the series is marvelous. He is a fantastic worker and keeps Nora on the straight and narrow. He adds humor and depth to an already impressive series. The suspects are intriguing, and none seem to be overly harsh or hateful. The interactions between the female characters are heartwarming in a world where women are pitted against each other for no apparent reason. Their friendship becomes more profound and more loving. They are more like a family who truly cares about each other than just friends and neighbors. The Book Of Candlelight is a wonderful story, and readers who enjoy cozies set mainly in a bookstore will love this new addition to the series. Nancy, who had learned to read the works of the old English poet Chaucer in school, eagerly translated it. Never mind that Chaucer wrote in Middle English, Nancy knows how to interpret a clue when she finds one: she is certain there is treasure to be found in a cloister within the Heath Castle gardens. There is—in the form of a rusty metal box buried in the wall. In the box Nancy discovers a journal that mentions a process for extracting magenta dye from the whelk shells Heath used in making buttons. This must be the "worthy secret" referred to in the torn scrap of note. There is yet another clue in the wall as well, a cement block containing a picture of a woman's slipper and the inscription "Cinderella. The evidence is mounting up nicely, but a problem remains. A sinister figure approaches, "walking with a catlike tread along the flagstone cloister" p. It is Hector Keep! Nancy and her friends escape pell mell, and that concludes the hair-raising part of the story. The last sixty pages of The Clue in the Crumbling Wall are devoted to unraveling the cat's cradle of intersecting narrative threads. A strange woman appears and asserts that she is Flossie Johnson. She produces the other half of the message the girls had found and stakes her claim to the Heath fortune, but the impostor is quickly exposed by Nancy. Her feet were too big to fit the slipper mold in the wall. Then the sleuth tracks down the real Florianna in a dungeon at the castle. Finally, readers are given to believe that Flossie, her sister, and little Joan will live happily thereafter, thanks to the tireless sleuthing of Nancy Drew. The formulas of characterization and plotting in Carolyn Keene's series differ but little from those at work in the Hardy Boys books. Once in a while there is a villainess—for example, Mrs. Dondo in The Hidden Window Mystery. As usual in Stratemeyer titles, their names give away their status, and so do their nonstandard grammar, their rough and impolite behavior, and—especially in this series—their clothing. As Nancy's wardrobe has followed vicissitudes of fashion, the antagonists' have, too. But the latter always overdo it when it comes to apparel, whether their sartorial preference runs toward flashy checked suits, showy ensembles that are unsuited for afternoon wear among the women , or, more recently, "trendy" designer jeans and a fisherman's knit sweater. Good characters, by contrast, like Lieutenant Masters in Crumbling Wall are decorous in taste, speak in rich, modulated tones, and rush immediately to Nancy's assistance. The assignment of characters to either stereotypically bad or equally good status is even more pronounced in this series than in earlier Stratemeyer publications. Not only do readers know forthwith which camp a character belongs to according to the signs named above, but the discerning Miss Drew intuitively evaluates every character she comes across. When, for instance, she meets two circus per- formers in The Mystery of the Ivory Charm , her judgment snaps into action. She tells her friends, "I was amazed when Rai called Coya his son…. Somehow Coya seems of much finer quality. Here is a shorthand summary of the standard pattern of action between Nancy Drew and those set on doing wrong. She either takes a case sometimes it is passed on to her by her father, other times influential clients such as museum directors or wealthy dowagers actually solicit her help or else she stumbles onto one, as in Crumbling Wall , in the first few pages of the book. More likely, both formulas are used, and as in the Hardy Boys the denouement of the story will reveal the seemingly disparate mysteries to be two sides of one puzzle. Nancy next rushes into investigation; inevitably the bad characters threaten her or try to bully her into dropping her inquiries. As Carson Drew notes time and again, however, it is no use trying to deter his daughter once she has sniffed a mystery. The villains nonetheless keep trying. Perhaps the salient formula in a Nancy Drew book is the chain of assaults made upon the sleuth's person. It is amazing that any thinking power is left after the beatings she has taken. People are forever trying to get at her through her car, of course. The brakes and steering of the various blue models she has driven—from her first roadster to a convertible to the sports car she spins around in these days—are the most frequent targets for those wanting to get rid of the girl. Nancy, moreover, has had a snake coil around her, was nearly electrocuted by a wired puppet, has recently been struck by a clanking armored figure, and was once poisoned by a sword doll, to mention just a few of the exotic things that have happened to her. Then there are routine events like being imprisoned in some nook or cranny of a large house. Alternatively, she is spirited away by boat and held captive in its claustrophobic cabin, as in The Clue of the Tapping Heels. Undaunted, the heroine springs back for further battering, always bolstered by the clues she finds. In point of fact, they almost find her, deus ex machina fashion. As other commentators have noted, clues are essential to the suspense and the seductiveness of the Nancy Drew series. They give the plot a forward motion, or sense of progress, that is much needed since revelation of the young detective's evolving analysis is not a part of the series mystery modus operandi. If the detective finds a clue, [Image Not Available] in other words, readers can assume headway is being made in solving the case. What constitutes a clue? Generally, it is something old, something valuable, something that exudes special meaning or evokes sentiment— again, something almost magical in its aura. Nancy perseveres, in both rebounding from her knocks and following out her clues, and finally she uncovers the perpetrators of evil and restores missing objects, and harmony, to those who called upon her for assistance.