#the hidden staircase

[picturebookshelf]

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories: The Hidden Staircase

(Original Edition: 1930 -- Revised Edition: 1966) Story: Carolyn Keene (Original: Mildred Wirt -- Revised: Harriet Adams) -- Art: Rudy Nappi

#what they did to nancy drew in the revised editions is criminal #nancy drew #nancy drew mysteries #the hidden staircase #1930s #30s #1960s #60s #children's novels #kidlit #kid books #children's books

[ndfan3]

The Hidden Staircase, The Nancy Drew Mysteries #2 (1930 and 1959)

This Nancy yarn was one of “Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson)”’s favourite stories and I can see why. It is one of the earlier Nancy Drew Mystery Stories and is something of a sequel to the book that commenced the series, The Mystery of the Old Clock. Originally published in 1930, The Hidden Staircase was revised and updated in 1959. The villain is actually revealed fairly early in the book, a Nathan Gomber, believing himself to have been swindled in a land sale and seeking to recoup his losses from two elderly sisters, Rosemary and Floretta Turnbull, living in a valuable civil war era mansion called Twin Elms, by persuading them to sell their house to him. One of what would become a common trope in the Nancy novels, that of the falsely haunted house, makes its first appearance here, as Nancy stays with the terrified old ladies for several nights attempting to find out the cause of ghostly sounds and mysterious thefts and disappearances in the mansion. The most tense and interesting part of this story (which also involves a superfluous kidnapping of Nancy’s father) is how Nancy, who works solo in this adventure, eventually locates the hide out of the false ghost, Willy Wharton, deep within the unexplored interior of the neighbouring house, Riverview, and captures him. Nancy brings her prisoner to Twin Elms to confront the Turnbull sisters and, ashamed at his actions, Willy confesses his part in the attempt to terrorise the two women and tells them he is working for Gomber. He also reveals the villain has obtained the neighbouring property which is linked to the Turnbull sisters’ home by the secret staircase of the title, enabling Gomber to steal from their house undetected. Nancy leaves Willy to be guarded by the Turnbulls while she seeks to gain further evidence against Gomber in the other house. This she does when she discovers her kidnapped dad, held in the cellar! Nancy then calls the police and Gomber is caught and arrested, his plot to frighten the sisters into selling to him, revealed.

I like this story for its involved plot, subtle motivation, creepy setting and for the fact Nancy unusually solves this mystery without the help of her friends. Carson Drew’s kidnapping seems a little pat and why Gomber does this is never fully explained, but it does relieve Nancy of the job of having to piece together a case against the baddie.

#nancy drew #woman detective #mystery #capture #adventure #the hidden staircase

[cdchyld]

Just added to the Vintage shop!

~ “The Hidden Staircase” by Carolyn Keene (1959)

#Nancy Drew #Nancy Drew Mysteries #Nancy Drew Mystery #Carolyn Keene #The Hidden Staircase #VintageCDChyld #Vintage Etsy #Vintage Etsy Seller #Etsy Seller #Vintage Book Seller #Book Seller #books books books #vintage #etsy

[detectivedrewshouldgetaclue]

Shots! Shots! Shots! Shots!

#nancy drew #her interactive #clue crew #nancy drew pc games #nancy drew memes #nancy drew meme #tequlia #nancy drew books #the hidden staircase

[steampunktendencies]

This is a hidden staircase leading to a secret room inside a 19th Century Victorian home. Wow

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#Steampunk #Steam punk #Steampunk Art #Art #Design #Steampunk Design #Steampunk Style #architecture #victorian era #victorian house #19th century #Hidden staircase

[telumendils]

sophia lillis in nancy drew and the hidden staircase (2019)

#sophia lillis #sophialillisedit #nancy drew #nancydrewedit #nancy drew and the hidden staircase #movie #movieedit #bee makes. #muse: elspeth cousland.

[yappacadaver]

i still know the way to our secret house. The path i made and then hid so no one could follow, i still remember it. The house is gone and the world it was a part of is gone. You're gone too. But i still remember how to follow that secret path home.

#this post is abt minecraft but the experience honestly hits like a poem #we had a house on a multiplayer server together #I have a copy of the world saved from before it was deleted and i no longer have to hide cause the world is completely empty #i could just teleport to the coordinates i wrote down #but it was a nice little ritual. following the highway to the hidden hole on the side. running through tunnels with fake ends and branches #through the fortress and past the portals ppl built there into a little staircase #a very specific path through the crimson biome #a hidden opening in the side of a cliff #another series of tunnels #a portal hidden in a hill #quick flight to the surface and then west

[krash-and-co]

so we all know that "no, Lucy, that's not the way it's going to be" line from TSS, right? when she was about to jump down the well? well after THB took place we know Lockwood basically became suicidal. my point: Stroud not having Lucy say those exact words to Lockwood when he's doing something that could/would kill him was a MISSED OPPORTUNITY

#uh sorry guys #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #tw suicide #is that how you trigger warning #am I supposed to/do I have to do that here #idk help #this has been hidden in my notes for a Long Time #the screaming staircase #the empty grave

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

THERE ARE 2 FLOORS IN MY DORM BUILDING THAT I DID NOT KNOW EXISTED UNTIL NOW

#you go up this staircase that’s kind of hidden and boom! two more floors! :0 #my words

[okay-seeya-mr-egan]

okay real question. did anyone else play the nancy drew DS game? or was that just me? it was like clue benders society or something and this guy faked his death and there was a dude named doyle?? and a cat?? i think?

#did i dream this #i’m like 99.99% sure this was a real thing #and now that i’m thinking about it i’m fairly certain there was a #hidden staircase one too?? but it had a different art style and gameplay #nancy drew #clue benders society #i’m gonna google it brb

[rwpohl]

#nancy drew... reporter #william clemens #1939 #nancy drew #2007 #nancy drew and the hidden staircase #2019 #material #flyweight #rocket boys #novel #homer hickam #1998 #blue velvet #the million dollar hotel #sputnik #bug

[blog2collectionsanfavs]

See lots more at  https://blog2collectionsanfavs.tumblr.com/  

#dog #pets #staircase #fav #bed #bedding #cozy #home decor #farmhouse decor #hidden rooms #rustic #cabin decor

[grem-archive]

do u have a brother/sibling? bc you get the na bros so correct. also STELLAR movie choices

i am an only child (the happy accident)! however, i had a lot of cousins around my age growing up that i saw pretty frequently. we treated each other like siblings more often than not. it also helps that many of those cousins had siblings, and i am the only single child in my friend group. i'm surrounded by sibling-havers whom i enjoy observing interact. i have also pestered them on occasion with questions on what it's like to have siblings so that i can try and portray sibling duos/groups accurately in writing. the relationships between siblings can be so incredibly diverse and multifaceted. it's nutty really. there are some days that i wish i'd had siblings.

and thank you! dazed and confused holds a special place in my heart for very specific reasons, but all three are beloved.

#callsign gremlin checking in #bonus cousin story: #so this is one of my redneck cousins and myself at around the ages of 5 (me) and 4 (cousin) #we're at the family christmas in my late great-grandfather's house #this house was old and huge and he built it himself for his wife (who i never got to meet) #well it had two big staircases #one was a little hidden but the other was huge and curved around the foyer #all of us kids were playing hide and seek in the cluttered upstairs #kinda like tag hide-n-seek tho #so i'm running and my cousin comes out of nowhere and was attempting to push me or trip me #he pushed me down the huge fuckin stairs and i hit my head at the bottom #i'm screaming for a while because it hurt and was not a small staircase #i start to feel better a little later and the hide-n-seek games resume with the new rule of no more tag/running #me (feeling vengeful) caught the cousin the pushed me at the top of the other more hidden stairs #us (one half-redneck and one full-redneck) #staring each other down #i lunge and punch him #he goes tumbling down the other stairs and grabbed my dress skirt so i went with him #so now there's two basically half-feral pint-sized children wrestling and duking it out at the bottom of the stairs #and then we were hugging and crying later because i didn't want to leave papa's house because i love seeing everybody #and this cousin and i were as tight as not-sibling siblings could be #so both of us were VERY upset that i had to leave so my mom dad and i could go back home #even after we'd beat the shit out of each other

[dirtyriver]

Bonita Granville and Frankie Thomas in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, 1939, the last of four Nancy Drew movies starring Bonita Granville

#Movies #Girl detective #Nancy Drew #Bonita Granville #Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

[thoughtportal]

Join Rachel Hurdley as she climbs the staircase to discover a story of steps, status, segregation and grand entrances.

Staircases go back thousands of years to the stepped temples of the ancient world. In this country they developed from simple ladders to the spiral staircases of medieval castles and the imposing stairways of Tudor mansions.

Staircases may seem to be just a way of getting from one floor to another but, over the centuries, they’ve taken on a range of hidden meanings and symbolism.

Rachel travels to Newark Castle to find the truth behind a medieval myth, discovers how the many flights of stairs at Tudor Hardwick Hall were used to impress visitors and visits Kedleston Hall to find out how Georgian landowners used staircases to reinforce their social position.

Along the way, we learn about the Victorian hierarchy that governed who went down the stairs first. And grab the popcorn as we consider the role of the staircase in cinematic history.

#BBC Radio 4 - The Hidden History of the Staircase #BBC Radio 4 #bbc #bbc radio #podcast #podcasts #history #history podcast

[telumendils]

sophia lillis in nancy drew and the hidden staircase (2019)

#sophia lillis #sophialillisedit #nancy drew #nancydrewedit #nancy drew and the hidden staircase #movie #movieedit #bee makes. #muse: elspeth cousland.