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4.6/5 Barnes & Noble Language English ISBN 0-448-09524-6 Genre Children's literature | 3.9/5 Goodreads Cover artist Russell H. Tandy Publication date 1947 Originally published 1947 Publisher Grosset & Dunlap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Preceded by The Mystery of the Tolling Bell, Sinister Paradise Followed by The Ghost of Blackwood Hall, Rich and Dangerous Similar Carolyn Keene books, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories books, Mystery books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Clue in the Old Album is the twenty-fourth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1947 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.
Plot
Nancy witnesses a purse snatching and pursues the thief. She rescues the purse, but not its contents, then is asked by the owner, a doll collector, to do some detective work. "The source of light will heal all ills, but a curse will follow him who takes it from the gypsies." This is one of the clues Nancy is given to find an old album, a lost doll, and a missing gypsy violinist. The young sleuth never gives up her search, though Nancy faints after being injected with poison by a French-swordsman doll, run off the road in her car by an enemy, and sent many warnings to give up the case.