The Clue in the Crumbling Wall - Carolyn Keene

When Nancy is asked to find a professional dancer who disappeared several years before, the young detective becomes involved in a mystery reaching far beyond a missing-person’s case. During Nancy’s investigation at Heath Castle, she and her friends Bess and George realize that its crumbling walls contain a secret, but what is it? And who are their enemies that try to foil their every attempt to unravel the intricate puzzle? Danger lurks in a castle tower and throughout the vine-tangled grounds of the estate as Nancy exposes a sinister plot to defraud the dancer of her inheritance. The Clue in the Crumbling Wall is the twenty-second volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. Consisting of 175 volumes published between 1930-2003, the Nancy Drew mysteries were commissioned by the publisher Edward Stratemeyer to be the female counterpart to the Hardy Boys. Although all the Nancy Drew novels are attributed to the writer, a Carolyn Keene, the series was, in fact, written by a series of twenty