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4.3/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Publication date 1962 Genre Children's literature | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country United States Publisher Grosset & Dunlap Originally published 1962 Illustrator Georges Lévis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Followed by The Moonstone Castle Mystery, Shadow of a Doubt Similar Carolyn Keene books, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories books, Mystery books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Clue of the Dancing Puppet is the thirty-ninth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1962 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
Plot
At the Van Pelt estate, home of a local acting troupe, a mysterious dancing puppet haunts the grounds. Nancy, Bess, and George are asked to solve the case, but it will be a dangerous one yet rewarding when an old family mystery comes to light. At the Van Pelt estate, home of a local acting troupe called the Footlighters; a mysterious dancing puppet haunts the grounds. From the moment Nancy, Bess and George arrive at the mansion, the dancing puppet mystery is further complicated by the Footlighters’ temperamental leading lady and a Shakespearean actor. Nancy’s search of the mansion’s dark, musty attic for clues to the weird mystery and an encounter with two jewel theft suspects add perplexing angles to the puzzle. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.