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A review by drfuriosa
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
4.0
I haven't read this series since I was in middle school, and I've been itching to do a re-read for YEARS. Well, I had just as much fun as I remembered when I was a kid. Nancy is most def. a Mary Sue, but that didn't annoy me. I love a good mystery, and seeing her coolly use her wits to deduce clues about her reminded me how thrilling that was to have such a self-sufficient protagonist to read about. In this mystery, Nancy is determined to find the last will of an elderly man who promised his fortune to deserving and impoverished relatives, while the only will known to exist left his fortunes to the haughty Topham family. Hijinks ensue.
This book is VERY dated, but I found a real charm in that. I was enthralled by the idea that Nancy went around the county in her convertible, running errands for her dad and solving mysteries along the way. I'm looking forward to continue the series. I think I'll read the "original" set from the 1959 revision onward, so I'll be confining that to Books 1-56, since those are the ones I read as a kid.
This book is VERY dated, but I found a real charm in that. I was enthralled by the idea that Nancy went around the county in her convertible, running errands for her dad and solving mysteries along the way. I'm looking forward to continue the series. I think I'll read the "original" set from the 1959 revision onward, so I'll be confining that to Books 1-56, since those are the ones I read as a kid.