"When Nancy Drew and her two close friends arrive for the Emerson University June Week celebration and learn there has been a mix-up in their motel reservations, the confusion leads to a baffling mystery.
Uncle John Rorick, a descendant of the early settlers of the town of Emerson, invites the three girls to be his guests at his historic mansion on Pine Hill. Shortly after their arrival, he tells them about the phantom who haunts the mansion’s library. Uncle John also relates the weird family saga of a lost French wedding gown and valuable gifts which went to the bottom of a nearby cove in the sinking of the Lucy Belle a hundred years before. Could there possibly be some connection between the phantom and the old ship disaster? Nancy wonders.
In between enjoying the university’s June Week boat races, river pageant, and fraternity dances, Nancy and her friends work diligently to solve the mystery of Pine Hill and to find the long-lost wedding treasures.
The exciting climax will be as much of a thrill for the reader as it was for the teen-age detective herself."
As I've said before, my opinions on many Nancy Drew books have changed for the worse. Since I had given this book a 5 star GoodReads review upon my first reading I was very interested to see if my opinion changed.
- I feel like Ned is overly rude to Fred. It seems that Fred is more clumsy than careless and Ned's belittling seems quite unnecessary.
- Bess and George's prank on Ned was kind of cute but also a little strange. Nancy was attempting to catch the Phantom aka intruder, what if the intruder has showed up? The girls' prank would have made quite a mess of the situation.
- I don't understand the giant thumbprints. What is the point of this? Are thumbprints suppose to be scary?
- The president of Ned's fraternity is named Chuck Wilson. The name Chuck Wilson was also used in Mystery at the Ski Jump, it was the name of Carson's client. I thought it was interesting the name was reused.
- Nancy decides to search the house for hideaways and secret passages. Since the only room entered has been the library on the ground floor Nancy obviously decides to start searching in...the attic? This isn't the only book that's done this and it always drives me crazy. Why would Nancy waste so much time searching the attic and second floor first when that's no where near where the mysterious phantom has been.
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