The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories 22:

The Clue in the Crumbling Wall

Carolyn Keene

When Nancy is asked to find a professional dancer who disappeared several years before, the young detective becomes involved in a mystery reaching far beyond a missing-person's case. Clues lead to a huge estate which the dancer is to inherit if she can claim it in time. During Nancy's investigation at Heath Castle, she and her friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne realize that its crumbling walls contain a secret, but what is it? And who are their enemies that try to foil their every attempt to unravel the intricate puzzle? Danger lurks in a castle tower and throughout the vine-tangled grounds of the estate. The girls' gripping adventures culminate in a dramatic climax when Nancy exposes a sinister plot to defraud the dancer of her inheritance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I An Urgent Request

CHAPTER II Heath Castle

CHAPTER III: A Runaway Boat

CHAPTER IV: The Haunted Walk

CHAPTER V: Suspicious Figures

CHAPTER VI: A Mysterious Explosion

CHAPTER VII: A Puzzling Message

CHAPTER VIII: Locked In!

CHAPTER IX: Trap Door

CHAPTER X: In Search of a Clue

CHAPTER XI: A Warning

CHAPTER XII: Secret Entrance

CHAPTER XIII: Treasure!

CHAPTER XIV: Cinderella's Slipper

CHAPTER XV: Salty's Plight

CHAPTER XVI: News of Juliana

CHAPTER XVII: Kidnapped!

CHAPTER XVIII: Tower Trouble

CHAPTER XIX: Release and Capture

CHAPTER XX: A Last Surprise

CHAPTER IAn Urgent Request

"Hurry, Nancy!" Hannah Gruen called anxiously. The Drews' housekeeper held the front door open as jagged lightning cut the sky.

            Nancy raced madly toward the door, her red-dish-blond hair flying in the wind. "Made it!" she gasped, laughing, as great drops of rain pelted the driveway.