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      • When Nancy's friend Helen tells her about a ghost haunting her great-aunt's mansion, she's determined to check it out. But she's sidetracked when a suspicious character tells her that her father is in danger. Sure enough, her father is kidnapped and as she rushes to find him she also finds a connection between her father and the ghost.
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  2. Summaries. 1930 edition. At the beginning of the original edition of The Hidden Staircase Nancy is home alone while her father and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen, are both out for the day. The doorbell rings and Nancy is introduced to the "rude visitor," Nathan Gombet, who has come to see Carson Drew about some papers.

    • Carolyn Keene
    • Mystery
    • 1930
    • 210(1930-1959); 180
  3. Brief Synopsis. "The Hidden Staircase" takes place in the small town of River Heights. Nancy Drew, an eighteen-year-old detective, receives a letter from her friend Helen Corning, who is concerned about strange happenings in her family home. Helen's great-aunt, Rosemary Turnbull, has been living in a mansion rumored to be haunted.

  4. Plot Summary. Helen Corning wants Nancy to help her solve the case of her grandmother’s haunted house. Before Helen and her aunt Rosemary Hayes arrive at Nancy’s house, a man named Nathan Gomber goes to Nancy’s home and says that Nancy’s father is in danger because of the railroad case he is working on.

  5. The Hidden Staircase is the second book in the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. It was originally released by Grosset & Dunlap on April 28, 1930, with the revised edition being released on May 15, 1959. It features Nancy exploring a haunted mansion outside town, while trying to find her...

  6. The Hidden Staircase is the second in the original Nancy Drew series, published in 1930 and still remains in print! Nancy is trying to solve two mysteries: A haunting tale of a ghost that is running amok in an old mansion or so it seems... and a mystery surrounding threats made to her own father.

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  7. Feb 18, 2021 · Both versions of The Hidden Staircase follow largely the same plot: Nancy investigates a “haunted mansion,” deals with a cranky (possibly deluded) man who makes threats against the Drew family, and helps to find her father after he disappears from a business trip. As is typical of Nancy Drew stories, the haunted house plot and the ...

  8. The Hidden Staircase is the second volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, and published in 1930. Unofficial statistics indicate it to be one of the favorite stories of Nancy Drew readers. In the beginning of The Hidden Staircase, Nancy Drew...

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