Happy Saturday y'all! We have survived Ryan's first week of school and now it's time for a new Nancy Drew Challenge. Let's investigate The Whispering Statue!
There's the OT on the left and the RT on the right. Starting with #8, Nancy's Mysterious Letter, a lot of the RT versions feature cover art that's more a collage style rather than an illustration of a scene from the book. This pair is another one that the two versions basically share a title and Nancy but almost nothing else. Let's take a look!
Case file: Nancy, Bess, and George are staying in a seaside town while Carson is working on some kind of law case. Nancy spends a lot of the book trying to locate Miss Morse, whom she had met on the train to Sea Cliff, to warn her that the young man they met on the train is trying to con her out of a large sum of money. Nancy also visits the Conger estate near Sea Cliff to see a statue of a whispering girl who looks like her. Miss Morse is the long-lost daughter of the deceased owner of the estate, which has slowly been crumbling into the sea, and it turns out that Miss Morse had been a con artist in her youth and the young man on the train was her son, whom she had given up for adoption in hopes that he wouldn't follow in his parents' perfidious footsteps. In the climax of the book, both Nancy and Miss Morse are trapped in the building when it finally falls into the sea. They get rescued by the Coast Guard and Nancy foils a plot to steal the whispering girl statue. Also, this book introduces Nancy's dog Togo, who's a pretty major character in this version.
I had to dig By the Bay out of my "To Sell?" boxes because I just had to make a card inspired by the Conger mansion crumbling into the sea. That part of the book was wild, I want to reread this one.
I based my colors on the book cover, what do you think?
Supplies, all SU!
Stamps: By the Bay
Ink: Versamark, Early Espresso, Balmy Blue, Azure Afternoon, Cajun Craze, Basic Beige, Garden Green, Gray Granite, Pecan Pie
Paper: Azure Afternoon, Early Espresso, Thick Basic White, Nests of Winter DSP
Accessories: Mini Dimensionals, clear EP, Milky Dots
Next up is the RT:
Case file: Mrs. Merriam has given a large number of rare books to a man to sell for her, but she suspects that he's not giving her the money from the sales and she asks Carson to investigate. He's busy, so he sends Nancy, Bess, and George to Waterford to investigate and Nancy goes undercover with a wig and sunglasses as Debbie Lynbrook. Nancy lands a job at the bookseller's shop and soon finds that he IS swindling Mrs. Merriam and he's also selling fake reproduction artwork. The yacht club where the girls are staying is also home to the whispering statue, which had been stolen and didn't whisper anymore when it was recovered. Nancy discovers the statue is a fake and recovers the real one, which still bears an uncanny resemblance to her. (Togo is also in this book, but only one teeny mention.)
This book also features what has to be the silliest Scooby-Doo moment of any of the books so far:
They're hiding from someone by pretending to be paintings. Hilariously absurd! I love it, it's so silly.
Here's my card:
The girls go sailing several times in this book and only sink a boat once ; p I had to buy Uncharted Territory on eBay to make a card for this book. I decided to stick with blues for my card to coordinate with the book cover:
I had already done the sailboat and greeting for this card when I went hunting through my scraps for a bit of DSP, and that Everyday Skies scrap matched my card perfectly. Love it when that happens!
Supplies, all SU!
Stamps: Uncharted Territory
Ink: Versamark, Azure Afternoon, Blueberry Bushel, Early Espresso, Whisper White
Paper: Thick Basic White, Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue, Everyday Skies DSP Stack
Accessories: White EP, Textured Notes dies, Clear Ribboned Dots
If you would like to play along, just drop a comment on this post with a link to your card, I would love to see! You can also check out my other blog,
Hey Nancy Drew, for more in-depth commentary on the books--it's a bit behind where I am for this challenge but I am having all the fun writing it. Be sure to check back here next week when we investigate The Haunted Bridge!
