The Message in the Hollow Oak

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author = Carolyn Keene
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country = United States
language = English
series = Nancy Drew mystery series
genre = Mystery novel
publisher = Grosset & Dunlap
release_date = 1935
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"The Message in the Hollow Oak" is the 12th book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. It was written by Carolyn Keene. and first published in 1935.

Plot summary

In the 1935 version, Nancy Drew finds out that she has won a rather unusual prize from a contest, a piece of land in Canada. She takes a trip to see what her new property is like. It is her first trip outside the United States. [http://www.nancydrewsleuth.com/PRESSKIT-Factoids.pdf]

While she is traveling by train to Canada, she meets an authoress called 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 all right, but the authoress that Nancy talked to is in the nearby hospital, gravely injured. When they find her, Miss Chapelle tells Nancy the reason she was coming to Canada, and asks her a favor: to give a message to Miss Chapelle's grandfather, and to a lost love who 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.

In the 1972 version, New York City detectives can't find a clue to a missionary's fortune, which is hidden in a hollow oak tree. Nancy goes to a burial site in Illinois that is connected to the mystery.

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