"The strange disappearance of Carson Drew's Turkish client and a strange gift of an oriental rug encoded with a message woven in the decorative border start Nancy on a difficult search for a missing mannequin. But then a robber tries to steal the rug from the Drew home. Nancy, Bess, George, Ned, Burt, Carson, and Dave travel to Istanbul to search for more clues, but then, Bess disappears during the search, after the chums meet a young Turkish woman." [x]
This is the second to last Nancy Drew book that I am reading for the first time. I'm a little doubtful that I will like it because it was written in 1970, the 1970s books are the ones I tend to not like very much, and because Nancy and the gang travel to a foreign country. I do not like any of the books where Nancy travels to a foreign country with the exception of Fire Dragon.
- Mr. Drew gets sent a rug and Nancy's first thought is there must be a secret message woven into it. Oh please. I was rolling my eyes.
- I'm on page 36 and so much has already happened; the rug, the secret messages, Burt and Dave's flight almost crashing, going to the book store, going to the museum and the tailor shop and the locksmiths, Nancy's house being broken in. This books is trying to be action packed but it's resulting in it being choppy.
- The locksmith describes a suspect as wearing a bracelet then says "You wouldn't catch me wearing anything like that!" to which Bess replies "Why shouldn't a man wear a bracelet if he wants to?". Bess is such a sweetie.
- Nancy finds out that when Farouk left he purchased a plane ticket through a travel agent. If he was going back to Turkey why would he not just get one from the airport? Travel agents are more for tourist but Farouk is from Turkey and would know how to travel back there.
- Ned is working as an insurance salesman but he mentions his old job at a summer camp. I thought that was a cool little nod to some other books.
- River Heights suddenly has a big Greece/Turkey section. Exactly how big is River Heights?
- I was thrown when Aisha said her and Farouk had been in love because this whole time I thought Farouk was 40+ years old and Aisha around 18. So that was a little unexpected.
- The part where Nancy unrolls the rug and a scimitar comes flying out of it and stick into the wall was so ridiculous!
- Nancy gives an old man a heart attack by physically assaulting him and then complains that she can't ask him any questions because he's not conscious! This is so weird, I'm cracking up.
- I was surprised that Carson asked Nancy how she planned to pay for a trip to Turkey. Normally Nancy never thinks about the cost of flying around the world thanks to rich daddy Drew.
- Bess is referred to as Dave's "date" even when they're not on a date together. Why can't they just use the word girlfriend, ugh.
- Turns out the mannequin Nancy was suppose to find was actually Aisha. She would sit in the shop window everyday and pretend to be a mannequin. This is so stupid! Not only that but Farouk had absolutely NO reason not to write an actual letter to either Aisha asking her to come to Turkey or to Carson asking him to send Aisha to Turkey. The whole secret message in a rug was just absolute nonsense for the sole purpose of creating a fake mystery.
This book is just so weird and stupid.
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