The Whispering Statue - Carolyn Keene

Intrepid detective Nancy Drew returns. Once again, she faces to puzzling mysteries simultaneously. The first concerns a valuable collection of rare books that Mrs. Horace Merriam commissioned an art dealer to sell that may be too good to be true. The second mystery revolves around the baffling theft of a beautiful marble statue. To solve both mysteries, the famous young detective disguises herself and assumes a false identity. Despite these precautions, danger stalks Nancy’s every move. An attempted kidnapping, a nearly disastrous sailboat collision, and an encounter with a dishonest sculptor are just a few of the exciting challenges that Nancy is faced with as she gathers evidence against a clever ring of art thieves. The Whispering Statue is the fourteenth volume of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. Consisting of 175 volumes published between 1930-2003, the Nancy Drew books were commissioned by the publisher Edward Stratemeyer to be the female counterpart to the Hardy Boys. Although al