The Sign of the Twisted Candles (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #9)
by Carolyn Keene
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Near Fine
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1956 Grosset & Dunlap, New York. c1933 (1956A-57 by Farah). Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O address label on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($1.00); light wear to head, tail, and tips. Blue tweed boards and spine with dark blue lettering on the spine and front board; Nancy outline on front board. Tinted textblock top. Blue and white pictorial digger endpapers. 217 pp 8vo. Another exciting mystery begins for Nancy when her friends Bess and George visit The Sign of the Twisted Candles Inn and meet 100 year old Asa Sidney. The strange inn keepers seem to have some sort of hold over Asa and their foster daughter. When Asa dies, Nancy becomes embroiled in the middle of a family feud involving Bess and George which nearly costs her their friendship. In the end Nancy solves a baffling mystery involving the parentage of the inn keeper's foster daughter and foils the inn keeper's sinister plans. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016138
- Title
- The Sign of the Twisted Candles (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #9)
- Author
- Carolyn Keene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nancy Drew, Twisted Candles, adolescent fiction, mystery fiction, female detective fiction, Asa Sidney, Twisted Candles Inn
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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