The Whispering Statue by Carolyn KeeneAn elderly lady, Mrs. Merriam visits Nancy’s father to unearth the secret of her antique book collection, that she regularly sells to an antique librarian named Mr. Basswood. Apparently, Mr. Basswood seems to be flummoxing Mrs. Merriam by offering her lesser charges for the books she sold, than the charges he auctioned to his customers. The lady smells something fishy going on in his library-bookshop, and wants the secret behind this matter be unveiled.
Nancy, along with her friends Bess and George, boards the flight to Waterford, where she is going to have a stay in Mrs. Merriam’s watch club motel.
Disguising herself as a girl named Debbie, Nancy starts working in Basswood’s antique library as his assistant saleswoman. Guided by her instincts, she is led into a dusty chamber located inside the bookshop, where she discovers a smorgasbord of statues and sculptures, most of these signed in the initials M De K. Even Nancy is beginning to smell something spooky going on, here.
As she hops from clue to clue, she is led into an artist’s workshop where, soon after locating the secret connection between Basswood and this artist named Marco De Keer, Nancy finds herself kidnapped and gagbound inside a statue. Yes! Inside a statue…
However, a baffling secret is revealed to her, about the statue inside which she has been locked.
The novel ends with Nancy solving not only the mystery related to Mrs. Merriam’s antique book-collection, but also the mystery of the statue, which, people of this area, would call as ‘The Whispering Statue’…
Yet another Immersive mystery from the Nancy Drew-Carolyn Keene series!
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