This story is about eighteen year old, Nancy Drew, being asked by her friend, Helen Corning to come to her great grandmother's mansion, Twin Elms, to solve the mystery of the ghost haunting the house and scaring her and her daughter, Helen's great aunt Rosemary.
Helen Corning is a brunette, fun loving girl. Though nearly three years older then her, she and Nancy are great friends. Later, a man named Nathan Gomber comes to warn Nancy that her father is in great danger and that she should stick close to him.
Nancy's father is a well know lawyer in River Heights, Nancy's hometown. In fact, Nancy's first case to get publicity from ( she had helped her father many times ) was passed down to her to take care of personally by her father!
Nancy doesn't take the warning about her father too seriously. But, she had to admit she might be better off to stick by him, though it would mean giving up the new mystery she was asked to solve!
That night, when Nancy's father came home, he didn't take his daughter's relay of the warning any more serious then a joke. But, when Nancy mentioned the name Nathan Gomber, his expression changed completely.
Later, after having dinner, Mr. Drew assured Nancy that he was in no danger, and gave her his permission to go to Cliffwood to solve the mystery at Twin Elms.
It's an over one hundred page book, which includes action, suspense, and Nancy saving her father from a colonial dungeon along the passageway underneath Twin Elms and Riverview Manor, the neighboring property. All's well that ends well. I deeply recommend this book to readers young and old.
Next week, I will review the Hardy Boys' Mystery, The Clue in the Embers.
