ISBN: 9781534461383
Editorial: Aladdin
Autor: Keene, Carolyn
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 224
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Ned and Nancy track down a ghostly saboteur in the twenty-third book in the Nancy Drew Diaries series, a fresh approach to a classic series.Nancy and Ned are visiting Coffin Hall, an estate turned rare books library, doing research on the library’s rumored ghost for an episode of the NedTalks podcast when a fire breaks out in the records room. One of the library’s security guards accuses Ned of arson—after all, he was the only one in the room when the fire started—but Ned swears it wasn’t him. He was trying to stop the fire. He tells Nancy he saw a lady in blue right before the incident, and thinks it was Henrietta Coffin, the ghost of Coffin Hall! Nancy is confident her boyfriend is innocent, and she’s determined to identify the real culprit, though she’s pretty sure it wasn’t of the paranormal sort. When she investigates further, she learns that the fire was just the latest in a string of recent strange and inexplicable incidents plaguing Coffin Hall. It’s increasingly apparent that someone has more than a passing interest in shutting down the library. But who—or what—is responsible? And why? About the Author Carolyn Keene is the author of the ever-popular Nancy Drew books. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter One: The Specter in the Stacks CHAPTER ONE The Specter in the Stacks “TURN RIGHT HERE, NANCE! THAT’S the driveway,” said Ned, pointing and bouncing like a kid on his way to the zoo. I think it’s cute when he nerds out about a bit of historical trivia or one of my dad’s cases, and I was excited to work with him on his investigation. I put on my turn signal, even though there wasn’t a single car in sight, and my car rolled through the imposing iron gate onto a long gravel drive lined with two rows of overgrown cypress trees. Ned went into tour-guide mode. “The guy who owned this place was a ruthless water baron. The farmers and the townspeople hated him. He made most of his money by charging such high prices for water that family farmers were eventually forced to sell their land to him at a steep discount.” “Is that Coffin Hall?” I asked, looking at the ivy-covered brick building ahead of us. It looked more like a witch’s cottage than a haunted library. “No, that’s the guardhouse. The Coffins made a lot of enemies back in the day.” The driveway snaked past the guardhouse and along the iron fence that marked the edge of the property, up and around a large grassy hill. As we drove, I caught glimpses of a many-roofed mansion at the top. With its trees and mossy statues, the Coffin estate could almost be a park. Except the grass had grown long, and there were no picnickers, no gardeners, no couples strolling, no bird-watchers—not even birds. The estate was completely deserted. “This place is huge,” Ned continued. “The land belongs to the city now. It’s a public park. The library’s public too, but almost nobody knows about it because it’s so far from the center of town.” “Well, who wouldn’t want to hang out on the grounds of a haunted library?” “I know, right? It’s the ideal date spot,” Ned said, and laughed. “Anyway, after Hieronymous Coffin died, he left his entire estate to his daughter, Harriet. Then she disappeared, leaving behind a cryptic will that said she wanted Coffin Hall to be converted into a library for rare books. Now it has the largest archive of historical documents in the whole state.” “In other words, heaven for a bookworm like Ned,” I interrupted. “I’m having trouble getting past the last name Coffin. It just seems too spooky to be real. But I’m also hungry. Did you pack sandwiches?” “Turkey and cheese. Hieronymous was not a nice guy. But he must have been proud of himself, because he named his daughter Hieronymous Junior.” I furrowed my brow. “I thought her name was Harriet.” “That was the name she went by,” Ned explained. “Would you want to be called Hieronymous Coffin Junior?” “Harriet Coffin is better,” I agreed. “Not a bad name f
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