![]() ![]() Gomber is apprehended, and leads police to a hidden room in the tunnel, where Carson Drew is being kept prisoner. She and Helen explore a tunnel leading back to another staircase-and run into none other than Willie Wharton! The girls reveal the tunnel and the staircases to Miss Flora and Aunt Rosemary. She and Helen explore the twin property, and Nancy discovers a hidden panel, falling down a hidden staircase. The girls also discover a hidden "listening post," in a secret room adjacent to the kitchen.Ī Realtor gives Nancy the key to Riverside Manor, even though it has been sold to Nathan Gomber. Nancy and Helen even explore the roof-where Nancy notices the "twin" estate, Riverside Manor, which is for sale. Unfortunately, this lead is delayed when the ceiling of the front hall falls in on Nancy and Helen. Meanwhile, she tracks down a newspaper discovered near the Twin Elms estate. All four women did period costumes for an evening of fun. After Nancy confers with the local chief of police, an officer named Patrick is assigned to patrol the grounds - his first capture, Nancy! Nathan Gomber harasses Miss Flora and Rosemary to sell their property repeatedly.Ĭarson fails to arrive, worrying Nancy. Nancy and Helen explore more about the history of the house and grounds. Miss Flora is missing items, music comes out of nowhere, and a gorilla is seen peering in a window. The girls first day, a chandelier sways by itself. Nancy and Helen go to stay at Twin Elms while Carson goes to Chicago to find Wharton. Nancy and her father view the railroad bridge after church, and must swim to safety to escape a runaway truck at the site. His client, Willie Wharton, is holding up proceedings by hiding. ![]() In the meantime, Nancy's father is being threatened by crooked lawyer Nathan Gomber, who feels Carson, as an attorney for the railroad, cheated property owners near a new railroad bridge. Odd things, beyond the eccentricities of the elderly Miss Flora, are happening. In the 1959 version, Helen and her great aunt Rosemary ask Nancy to solve a mystery at her great-grandmother's home, Twin Elms, a stately Colonial mansion in nearby Cliffwood. Gomber was behind the haunting's as well. Based on Nancy's suspicions, police raid Gomber's house, where Carson Drew has been a prisoner for days. Nancy reveals her discovery to the elderly Turnbulls in the morning, then they investigate together. Her exploration leads her back to the attic of the home where she is staying, up another series of staircases. While roaming around the odd house, Nancy accidentally falls through a secret panel and down a staircase, discovering a tunnel. She successfully breaks into the basement but must hide and evade Gomber's accomplice and housekeeper, a large, ill-tempered African American woman. Meanwhile, Nancy finds out that the nefarious Gomber owns the adjacent estate, very similar in appearance to "The Mansion." She decides to investigate one rainy night, armed with a revolver and an electric torch. Nancy's focus on the mystery is derailed when Carson fails to contact Nancy for several days, and appears to have vanished. A valuable pin has been stolen, and canaries get into the house of their own accord. ![]() Nancy discovers odd happenings at the Mansion, which is primitive-it lacks electricity. He will travel to Chicago during the first part of Nancy's stay at the old estate, and join her later. Carson Drew, undaunted, agrees to allow Nancy to investigate the Mansion, and sends his revolver with her. ![]() Nancy's father is being harassed by a crooked character, Nathan Gomber. The complaint is that their home, "The Mansion," is haunted. In the original 1930 version of the story, Nancy is introduced to the Turnbull sisters by Abby Rowen, a character aided in the resolution of the first volume. ![]()
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