nancy drew the captive curse first coded message

#Nancy drew the captive curse first coded message series

Tandy updated this illustration to pen and ink on plain paper with 1940s hairstyles in 1943. The frontispiece alone was used beginning in 1937, but the third plate, of Nancy, Nancy S. Nancy is depicted chasing Edgar at the football stadium, with a glossy frontispiece of Nancy at the postal inspector's office and three glossy internal illustrations included in the original imprint.

#Nancy drew the captive curse first coded message series

Tandy, illustrator for the Nancy Drew series from 1930 to 1949. The original 1932 artwork is by the fashion illustrator Russell H. The details involving the football game are modernized and abridged to reduce this story element. Forced to breathe the anesthetic, Nancy faints into the woman's arms. Once inside, the woman grabs Nancy and holds a chloroform-soaked cloth over Nancy's nose and mouth. The teen sleuth is lured into the wash room by a young woman who tells Nancy someone is sick. Nancy is also waylaid at the airport while going there to find her namesake. The action at Emerson now includes someone attempting to harm Nancy by releasing a heavy curtain after luring her to a deserted theater stage. Nancy still goes to Emerson, but her companion in the original version, Helen Corning, is changed to a new acquaintance. Ira Dixon becomes 'Nixon,' and the action is accelerated.

Sub-plots involving early snowfall adding days to the Emerson trip and Nancy's success at a hotel costume event are eliminated. The revised edition is largely condensed, but employs the same plot. Nancy saves the day for Miss Drew, and helps her avoid marriage to a crook, the dodgy Edgar Dixon, while exonerating Ira Dixon. While she investigates during an unexpected layover, she and Ned discover a lonely-hearts mail racket where money is solicited for introduction services. Nancy tries to make contact with Nancy S. Ned performs well in the big game, during which Nancy sees the suspect in the stadium. Skeets provides a clue, as does George Fayne, and Nancy discovers her counterpart is visiting faculty at Emerson. The primary suspect becomes Edgar Dixon, the half brother of her mail carrier, a flashy man in a yellow coat. Nancy has no middle name or initial and she searches for her namesake. Nancy receives a letter from British solicitors informing her of a Nancy Smith Drew, sought as the heiress of an estate there. Strangely, the letters are re-posted later. 'Sailor' Joe Skeets, who accuses her of wrongdoing due to her own missing letter containing money, stolen with the mailbag. In the meantime, she is invited to spend a weekend as a guest of Ned Nickerson at Emerson College, where a big football game will take place, and she prepares for the trip. Nancy is summoned by postal authorities, who accuse her of being involved in the theft, which threatens the postman's pension and career. Postman Ira Dixon, nearing retirement, is invited inside, and leaves his mailbag in the vestibule, where it is stolen. In the late autumn after returning from Red Gate Farm on a day trip, Nancy and her friends enjoy hot cocoa and a snack at teatime.