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Book Detail:
The Secret of Red Gate Farm is the sixth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, It was first published in 1931.
Book Read: Ebook
Characters:
Nancy Drew Bess Marvin George Fayne
Joanne Mrs Salisbury Mr Abbott
Karl Jr Mrs Byrd Agent Horton
Maurice Hale Yvonne Wong Mr Al Snead
Hank Pete Mr Kent
Mrs Hale
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My Review :
My Review :
I liked the story because till end chapters you will not know what may be the cause of all these mishaps and how are they related to a perfume smell. After few chapters it becomes obvious that because of a BS colony these things are happening but what the colony is doing is still a mystery till last 3 chapters. Story is well written.
They manage to put the puzzle pieces in the story to shape the mystery at very end , but that is not needed as the reader has guessed what had happened by then.
Moreover, there are many situations which are coinciding with the mystery, which are made to fall in place at that right time.
They manage to put the puzzle pieces in the story to shape the mystery at very end , but that is not needed as the reader has guessed what had happened by then.
Moreover, there are many situations which are coinciding with the mystery, which are made to fall in place at that right time.
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Summary: (with spoilers)
Bess purchases a perfume from a shop where the shopkeeper is very reluctant in selling this perfume to Bess. But as Nancy & Bess insists upon buying the perfume , she finally sells that perfume at higher price. While waiting for train to go back to River Heights ,Bess accidentally sprays some perfume on Nancy and someone passing by, suddenly stops and ask Nancy "Any word from the Chief" which makes Nancy more suspicious about the perfume, During this time they find the girl sitting next to them suddenly collapsing and going into unconsciousness state. Nancy and others help the girl to recover who later introduce herself as Joanne. Joanne is living in Red Gate Farm and has came to town in search of job to support her grand mother. Nancy helps this girl to attend her interview in town , in some office building room number 305. She becomes suspicious when the person interviewing takes the phone call and takes a code and acknowledge that the job is already given to someone else.
Joanne tries to get some other job in meantime , but she has tough time in interviews due to her farm experience . Nancy gets a call from Joanne explaining her that she got a letter from her grandmother and she is willing to sell the farm to Mr Kent and now she has to rush to red farm to stop her grandmother selling the farm.
Nancy with Bess and George plans to go with Joanne to Red Gate farm and stay there as paying guest for a while so that they can persuade Joanne grandmother not to sell farm and meanwhile help the family to run the farm with some help.
During their journey to Red Gate farm , they saw the same person who had asked Nancy about the Chief in train, With him there are another two men and one lady travelling in a car who stops in front of them for filling fuel.
During Nancy's stay in Red gate farm , they find out there is a Black Snake colony in red farm estate , where some people have rented this part of the farm and doing some weird ceremonies at night , where they cover themselves from head to toe in white cloth and keep their hands up and do some ceremonies .
Meanwhile Nancy gets a telegram from her Dad , asking her to come home quickly and this telegram is handed by a women at night. But Nancy suspects the telegram and goes to a gas station to call her Dad and finds that the telegram was a hoax. Meanwhile there is some commotion going on in the eating place and the women in charge suspects that Nancy has given her the 20 bucks which is fake. On inspecting more , Detective finds that money which Nancy carrying with herself is also fake. Karl Jr comes by and rescues Nancy and friends and they go home thinking how come the fake notes came into Nancy purse.
Nancy and her friends are curious to know about these people who are seen only some days and on those days at night they will roam in white cloak . They decide to investigate on these people and start making themselves same clothes so that they can get mixed up with Black Snake Colony and discover their work.
During Nancy trips to town , she finds a women hurrying up the path and travelling on foot , She offers her help and based on her answers she finds out that she is the member of the colony and its very dangerous to go there spooking.
One day they get the chance to wear the same cloaks and get mixed up with the Black Snake Colony members , they soon recognize the voices of other members as the ones who followed them and created troubles before.
During the ceremony,they found out that members are doing this only to fool others who see them as a colony . They get mixed among the crowd and tries to enter in the cave , where they saw the currency printing machines making fake notes and more people involved in whole massquare . Somehow they manage to look all the places and hear all the conversations among the members to know the details , and when it comes to remove their masks and show their faces , Colony head Mr Maurice Hale captures these girls and tortures and send his team to throw them in water , At the same time Karl Jr comes with the Police and they capture whole unit and mystery is solved .
Joanne grandmother is relieved that they captured these guys , but scared that this will bring bad reputation in neighbourhood and no one will come to Red Farm . But as Nancy and friends decide that they will make the cave as a visitor point and market the place as where the forgery , currency printing happened , their plan work and they make money from the entry fee for visit .
Summary: (with spoilers)
Bess purchases a perfume from a shop where the shopkeeper is very reluctant in selling this perfume to Bess. But as Nancy & Bess insists upon buying the perfume , she finally sells that perfume at higher price. While waiting for train to go back to River Heights ,Bess accidentally sprays some perfume on Nancy and someone passing by, suddenly stops and ask Nancy "Any word from the Chief" which makes Nancy more suspicious about the perfume, During this time they find the girl sitting next to them suddenly collapsing and going into unconsciousness state. Nancy and others help the girl to recover who later introduce herself as Joanne. Joanne is living in Red Gate Farm and has came to town in search of job to support her grand mother. Nancy helps this girl to attend her interview in town , in some office building room number 305. She becomes suspicious when the person interviewing takes the phone call and takes a code and acknowledge that the job is already given to someone else.
Joanne tries to get some other job in meantime , but she has tough time in interviews due to her farm experience . Nancy gets a call from Joanne explaining her that she got a letter from her grandmother and she is willing to sell the farm to Mr Kent and now she has to rush to red farm to stop her grandmother selling the farm.
Nancy with Bess and George plans to go with Joanne to Red Gate farm and stay there as paying guest for a while so that they can persuade Joanne grandmother not to sell farm and meanwhile help the family to run the farm with some help.
During their journey to Red Gate farm , they saw the same person who had asked Nancy about the Chief in train, With him there are another two men and one lady travelling in a car who stops in front of them for filling fuel.
During Nancy's stay in Red gate farm , they find out there is a Black Snake colony in red farm estate , where some people have rented this part of the farm and doing some weird ceremonies at night , where they cover themselves from head to toe in white cloth and keep their hands up and do some ceremonies .
Meanwhile Nancy gets a telegram from her Dad , asking her to come home quickly and this telegram is handed by a women at night. But Nancy suspects the telegram and goes to a gas station to call her Dad and finds that the telegram was a hoax. Meanwhile there is some commotion going on in the eating place and the women in charge suspects that Nancy has given her the 20 bucks which is fake. On inspecting more , Detective finds that money which Nancy carrying with herself is also fake. Karl Jr comes by and rescues Nancy and friends and they go home thinking how come the fake notes came into Nancy purse.
Nancy and her friends are curious to know about these people who are seen only some days and on those days at night they will roam in white cloak . They decide to investigate on these people and start making themselves same clothes so that they can get mixed up with Black Snake Colony and discover their work.
During Nancy trips to town , she finds a women hurrying up the path and travelling on foot , She offers her help and based on her answers she finds out that she is the member of the colony and its very dangerous to go there spooking.
One day they get the chance to wear the same cloaks and get mixed up with the Black Snake Colony members , they soon recognize the voices of other members as the ones who followed them and created troubles before.
During the ceremony,they found out that members are doing this only to fool others who see them as a colony . They get mixed among the crowd and tries to enter in the cave , where they saw the currency printing machines making fake notes and more people involved in whole massquare . Somehow they manage to look all the places and hear all the conversations among the members to know the details , and when it comes to remove their masks and show their faces , Colony head Mr Maurice Hale captures these girls and tortures and send his team to throw them in water , At the same time Karl Jr comes with the Police and they capture whole unit and mystery is solved .
Joanne grandmother is relieved that they captured these guys , but scared that this will bring bad reputation in neighbourhood and no one will come to Red Farm . But as Nancy and friends decide that they will make the cave as a visitor point and market the place as where the forgery , currency printing happened , their plan work and they make money from the entry fee for visit .
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