The Clue in the Old Album

The Clue in the Old Album is the twenty-fourth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1947 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.[1][2]

The Clue in the Old Album
Original edition cover
AuthorCarolyn Keene
Cover artistRussell H. Tandy
LanguageEnglish
SeriesNancy Drew Mystery Stories
GenreJuvenile literature
PublisherGrosset & Dunlap
Publication date
1947
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN0-448-09524-6
Preceded byThe Mystery of the Tolling Bell 
Followed byThe Ghost of Blackwood Hall 

Plot summary

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Nancy witnesses a purse snatching and pursues the thief. She rescues the purse, but not its contents, then is asked by the owner, a doll collector, to do some detective work. "The source of light will heal all ills, but a curse will follow him who takes it from the gypsies." This is one of the clues Nancy is given to find an old album, a lost doll, and a missing gypsy violinist. The young sleuth never gives up her search, though Nancy faints after being injected with poison by a French-swordsman doll, is run off the road in her car by an enemy, and sent several warnings to give up the case.

References

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  1. ^ The Clue in the Old Album at WorldCat
  2. ^ Rehak, Melanie (2006). Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. Harcourt. pp. 154–156. ISBN 9780156030564.
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