NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE SPOILER FREE REVIEW

 

The second OG Nancy Drew book!

Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene follow Nancy Drew solving a mystery over at the estate of her best friend Helen's great grandmother, Miss Flora. Miss Flora's big house has been reported to be haunted: things keep moving and food keeps getting stolen. Nancy and Helen attempt to find the ghost or the person who keeps messing around the house. At the same time, Nancy's father gets swept up in a case of his own where a man named Willie Wheaton wants to build a new railroad, but the papers that have Wheaton's signature on them aren't probably legitimate. What's distracting Nancy and her father the most is a suspicious man named Nathan Gomber, who seems to have something against Nancy and her father. Just like the last book, the main mystery and the sub-mystery seem to have nothing to do with each other, but at the end they come together. I won't tell you how! 

This was such a fun book to read! It was a little scary at times since the characters do deal with some criminals and have to get the police and lawyers involved, but every chapter will have you at the edge of your seat! 

I gave it 4.5 stars. This is because in one part of the beginning of the book they use a word  to describe one person getting deceived by another person, and for those who don't know, that word comes from the g-word racial slur for Romani people. Well, this is a book from the 1930s, so some minor things haven't aged too well. Luckily, the word doesn't reappear later in the book. 

Do you like any other classic books? Or mystery books?