The Message in the Hollow Oak
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The Message in the Hollow Oak is the twelfth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
series. It was written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene
and first published in 1935.
. She takes a trip, her first outside of the United States, to see what her new property looks like.
As she is traveling by train to Canada, she meets an authoress named Ann Chapelle who is also traveling to Canada. Suddenly, the train crashes, and everything is thrown into confusion. Nancy and her two friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, are alright, but the authoress that Nancy talked to is in a nearby hospital, gravely injured. When they find her, Miss Chapelle tells Nancy the reason she was going to Canada, and asks a favor of her - to give a message to Miss Chapelle's grandfather, and to a lost love whom she hasn't seen since she ran away from home some years ago.
Along with this request, Nancy also has another problem: Two men have heard that there might be gold on Nancy's land, and are determined to get there first.
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories was the long-running "main" Nancy Drew series, published between 1930 and 2003. Initially, titles were published by Grosset & Dunlap, but with #57 publication switched to Simon & Schuster. Most people consider these first 56 to be the original series and consider the...
series. It was written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene
Carolyn Keene
Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate...
and first published in 1935.
Plot summary - 1935 edition
Nancy Drew finds out that she has won a rather unusual prize in a contest, a piece of land in CanadaCanada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. She takes a trip, her first outside of the United States, to see what her new property looks like.
As she is traveling by train to Canada, she meets an authoress named Ann Chapelle who is also traveling to Canada. Suddenly, the train crashes, and everything is thrown into confusion. Nancy and her two friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, are alright, but the authoress that Nancy talked to is in a nearby hospital, gravely injured. When they find her, Miss Chapelle tells Nancy the reason she was going to Canada, and asks a favor of her - to give a message to Miss Chapelle's grandfather, and to a lost love whom she hasn't seen since she ran away from home some years ago.
Along with this request, Nancy also has another problem: Two men have heard that there might be gold on Nancy's land, and are determined to get there first.