The Secret of the Old Clock

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew is already the kind of sleuth who cannot ignore an injustice, and the dispute over Josiah Crowley's fortune gives her one almost at once. When she learns that the disliked Topham family may inherit his estate, she suspects a missing second will and begins piecing together clues with the help of her lawyer father, Carson Drew. A conversation with attorney Henry Rolsted confirms that Crowley had planned to draw up a new will, while Nancy's own encounters with the rude Topham sisters only deepen her resolve. As she balances ordinary errands, from buying a party dress to delivering legal papers, Nancy keeps searching for the truth. A charity-dance ticket sale gives her a reason to enter the Topham home, where she discovers that the old Crowley clock has been moved to Moon Lake. She ingeniously arranges a trip there, but on the way is diverted by a new mystery: dead chickens and a frightened girl at the Horners' farm. Clever, independent, and fearless, Nancy is already proving that every clue may lead to another case.