Product Description
The Secret Of Shadow Ranch, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, number 5 in the series. Author: Carolyn Keene. 203 pages. Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, no 9505. The book is copyright 1931 and printed in 1962.
Synopsis: Nancy, along with her friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne, travels to Arizona to visit Bess and George's Aunt and Uncle, the Rawleys, at their newly acquired Shadow Ranch. The ranch is threatened by a series of strange, destructive occurrences that the locals attribute to a curse involving a phantom horse. This ghostly omen is tied to the legend of an outlaw named Dirk Valentine, who supposedly buried a treasure on the property and swore his ghost would guard it.
Nancy investigates the strange happenings and the old legend, believing a modern criminal is behind the sabotage to scare the owners away. Her sleuthing leads her through the rugged Arizona landscape, including desert caves and ancient Indian cliff dwellings, where she looks for clues to Dirk Valentine's buried treasure. Along the way, Nancy also aids a young girl, Alice Regor, in searching for her missing artist father, whose disappearance becomes linked to the central mystery.
Ultimately, Nancy uncovers a plot by a gang of modern criminals who were using the phantom horse legend (created with tricks like phosphorescent chemicals) to frighten the Rawleys off the land so they could search for the treasure. Nancy solves the puzzles and finds the treasure, capturing the thieves and reuniting Alice with her father.
Condition: The book is an ex-library book with a white library ID strip on the spine and some light wear along the edges of the covers. The inside pages are in excellent condition with no bent pages or marks. The binding is in very good condition (see photos)
Product Description
The Secret Of Shadow Ranch, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, number 5 in the series. Author: Carolyn Keene. 203 pages. Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, no 9505. The book is copyright 1931 and printed in 1962.
Synopsis: Nancy, along with her friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne, travels to Arizona to visit Bess and George's Aunt and Uncle, the Rawleys, at their newly acquired Shadow Ranch. The ranch is threatened by a series of strange, destructive occurrences that the locals attribute to a curse involving a phantom horse. This ghostly omen is tied to the legend of an outlaw named Dirk Valentine, who supposedly buried a treasure on the property and swore his ghost would guard it.
Nancy investigates the strange happenings and the old legend, believing a modern criminal is behind the sabotage to scare the owners away. Her sleuthing leads her through the rugged Arizona landscape, including desert caves and ancient Indian cliff dwellings, where she looks for clues to Dirk Valentine's buried treasure. Along the way, Nancy also aids a young girl, Alice Regor, in searching for her missing artist father, whose disappearance becomes linked to the central mystery.
Ultimately, Nancy uncovers a plot by a gang of modern criminals who were using the phantom horse legend (created with tricks like phosphorescent chemicals) to frighten the Rawleys off the land so they could search for the treasure. Nancy solves the puzzles and finds the treasure, capturing the thieves and reuniting Alice with her father.
Condition: The book is an ex-library book with a white library ID strip on the spine and some light wear along the edges of the covers. The inside pages are in excellent condition with no bent pages or marks. The binding is in very good condition (see photos)