![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew wishes to help the Turners, who are struggling relatives of the recently deceased Josiah Crowley, by finding a missing will that can give them claim to Crowely's estate. In 2001, the novel ranked 53rd on Publishers Weekly's list of the all-time best-selling hardcover children's books in English, having sold about 2.7 million copies. In early editions, she is depicted as a mere servant later in the series, she becomes more of a family member. The Drews reside in River Heights and employ a housekeeper, Hannah Gruen. Her father, Carson Drew, is a well-known criminal defense lawyer. Nancy Drew is a sixteen-year-old high school graduate (her age was changed to eighteen in the 1959 rewrite). It was first published on April 28, 1930, and rewritten in 1959 by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. ![]() ![]() The Secret of the Old Clock is the first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. ![]()
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