The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes

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The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
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Author Carolyn Keene
LanguageEnglish
Series Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
Genre Juvenile literature
Publisher Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date
1964
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Preceded by The Moonstone Castle Mystery  
Followed by The Phantom of Pine Hill  

The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes is the forty-first volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1964 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. [1]

Contents

Plot

Nancy finds mystery in everything she does. In the novel Nancy and her friends along with her father head to Scotland on family business and to solve the mystery of the missing heirloom. Nancy is warned not to go to Scotland, but she ignores the warning. Nancy finds strange things in Scotland like the people. She and her friends, Bess and George, visit Nancy's great-grandmother from her mother's side (who Nancy's never met) at an estate in the Scottish Highlands. While there, Nancy becomes involved in the mystery of missing flocks of sheep and a mysterious bagpiper has been spotted. Clues leading to a discovery in an old castle and a prehistoric fortress lead to the mystery's solution.

Adaptation

The 29th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive, named Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy , is loosely based on the novel.

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References

  1. "Harriet Stratemeyer Adams" Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield. Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works. Salem Press, Jan2007