- The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
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name = The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
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author =Carolyn Keene
country =United States
language = English
series =Nancy Drew stories
genre = Detective,Mystery novel
publisher =Grosset & Dunlap
release_date = 1964
media_type = Print (Hardback &Paperback )
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isbn = NA
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followed_by ="The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes" is the forty-first volume in the
Nancy Drew mystery series. It was first published in 1964 under the pseudonymCarolyn Keene . The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.Plot summary
Warnings not to go to
Scotland can't stopNancy Drew from setting out on a thrill-packed mystery adventure.Undaunted by the vicious threats, the attractive young detective, with her father and her two best friends, goes to visit her great-grandmother at an imposing estate in the
Scottish Highlands , and to solve the mystery of a missing family heirloom.And there is another mystery to be solves: the fate of flocks of stolen sheep.
Baffling clues challenge Nancy's powers of deduction: a note written in the ancient Gaelic language, a deserted houseboat on
Loch Lomond , a sinister red-bearded stranger inEdinburgh , eerie whistling noises in the Highlands. Startling discoveries in an old castle and in the ruins of a prehistoric fortress, on a rugged mountain slope and in a secluded glen, lead Nancy closer to finding the solutions to both mysteries.Wearing a time-honored tartan, Nancy climbs the mountain of
Ben Nevis in the dark of night and plays a tune historic heroism on thebagpipes -- all part of her daring plan top trap the sheep thieves and to recover the valuable family heirloom.
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