“It would be a shame if all that money went to the Tophams! They will fly higher than ever!” Nancy Drew, a pretty girl of sixteen, leaned over the library table and addressed her father who sat readin...

“Don’t forget your luncheon engagement with Mr. Rolsted,” Nancy Drew reminded her father the next morning at the breakfast table. “I’ll telephone him the first thing after I reach my office,” Carson D...

“Nancy, if you haven’t planned anything special for the day, I wonder if you would care to do a little errand for me?” inquired Carson Drew one morning at the breakfast table. “Why, of course,” Nancy ...

“The storm is getting worse every minute,” Nancy Drew’s companion observed. Nancy followed her to the barn door and looked out. The rain was now coming down in torrents, and as the girls stood in the ...

Although the rain was no longer falling, the River Road was a sea of mud, and before Nancy Drew started for home, the Horner girls insisted on helping her put chains on the rear wheels of the roadster...

In spite of Nancy Drew’s firm decision to assist the Horner girls, the days slipped by and, try as she would, she could think of no way to discover whether or not the missing Crowley will had fallen i...

While Nancy Drew eagerly waited, scarcely daring to breathe naturally lest her presence be detected, Ada began to speak. “Well, if there should happen to be another will, we may be dumped,” she said s...

After leaving her father’s office, Nancy Drew went directly home. Quickly backing her roadster from the garage, she set off down the River Road in the direction of the old farmhouse where the Horner g...

“This must be the house. It certainly fits the description given me.” As she spoke Nancy Drew paused before a square, one-story frame building which stood dejectedly in the center of a yard overgrown ...

When the mantel clock finished striking the hour of three, Abigail Rowen’s lips began to move. Nancy Drew leaned forward eagerly, fearful lest a single word escape her. She sensed that the striking of...

It was nearly three o’clock of the following afternoon when Nancy Drew paused in front of the Topham residence on Highland Boulevard. She surveyed the structure with distaste. The house was a large, p...

Although highly elated at what she had learned from the Tophams, Nancy Drew was at a loss to know how to proceed. Undoubtedly, the old Crowley clock was set up in the bungalow at Moon Lake, but to get...

Nancy Drew had made up her mind to visit the Topham cottage the very next day, but in making her plans she had counted without Helen Corning and her friends. They were unwilling that she should be alo...

“Nancy Drew, why are you packing that suitcase? You’re not leaving camp already?” Helen Corning, entering the cabin which she shared with Nancy, stopped in the doorway and stared in amazement at her c...

“How silly of me to be afraid!” Nancy Drew laughed nervously. “Probably there isn’t a person within miles of here!” As she glanced about the bungalow it was with relief that she assured herself the pl...

When the sound of the footsteps had died away, Nancy Drew was overcome with panic. A feeling of desperation came over her. She realized that the robber had dared to carry out his ugly threat. He had l...

There was another long wait and then, to her relief, Nancy Drew heard a key turn in the lock and then a bolt shot back. Quickly she pushed the closet door open and stepped out into the light. She stoo...

It was probably fortunate for Nancy Drew that the traffic police were not patrolling the road, for as she opened the throttle wider and wider, her roadster responded with a surge of power that sent th...

“I must notify the marshal at once!” Nancy Drew told herself as she recognized the three robbers. Turning away from the window, she crept noiselessly from the porch and as soon as she was a safe dista...

While Nancy Drew hesitated, uncertain which way to turn, her mind worked more clearly than ever before. She realized instantly that she could not hope to run to the front of the car and place the keys...

Eagerly, Nancy Drew tore the little notebook from the hook. The light was dim, but by holding the book directly under the dashlight, she could make out the words on the cover: “The Property of Josiah ...

“Just⁠—a⁠—minute,” Nancy Drew stammered as she darted toward the roadster, blocking the marshal’s path. “There’s a package in the seat. I’ll put it in the back.” Hastily, she picked up the clock which...

When Nancy Drew awoke the following morning, the bright sunlight was streaming in at her open bedroom window. As her eyes turned toward the little clock on her dresser, she was alarmed to see that it ...

“Oh, father, it’s nearly two o’clock now. The relatives should be coming in a few minutes! I’m so excited!” Carson Drew, who stood in the living room of the Drew home smiled indulgently at his daughte...

“I suppose you’ve heard about the Tophams,” Carson Drew remarked to his daughter, one morning some months after the reading of the Crowley will. “Why, no, what about them?” “They’re practically in ban...