Mystery of the Glowing Eye - Carolyn Keene [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
CHAPTER I - Runaway Helicopter
CHAPTER II - A Suspected Forgery
CHAPTER III - A Glowing Eye
CHAPTER IV - Fiery Red Hair
CHAPTER V - A Strange Prison
CHAPTER VI - Mysterious Burglary
CHAPTER VII - The Explosion
CHAPTER VIII - Puzzling Package
CHAPTER IX - The Spy
CHAPTER X - Treacherous Swamp
CHAPTER XI - Wilderness Cabin
CHAPTER XII - Hidden Notes
CHAPTER XIII - The Escape
CHAPTER XIV - Chilly Conference
CHAPTER XV - Abrupt Resignation
CHAPTER XVI - Astonishing Discovery
CHAPTER XVII - Paralyzing Light
CHAPTER XVIII - Weird Heel Mark
CHAPTER XIX - The Captive
CHAPTER XX - Surprising Story
MYSTERY OF THE GLOWING EYE
When Nancy Drew eagerly agrees to help her lawyer father solve the mystery of the glowing eye, she has no way of knowing that it will involve the kidnapping of her close friend Ned Nickerson.
A puzzling note in Ned’s handwriting sets Nancy and her friends Bess and George on a hazardous search for a bizarre criminal. From their base of operations, the Emerson College campus, the three girl detectives and Ned’s college pals follow a maze of clues to locate the kidnapper’s hideout and rescue Ned. Not only is Nancy greatly worried about Ned, but also she is alarmed by the high-handed methods of a woman lawyer who tries to take the case away from her.
Every reader will thrill to Nancy’s exciting adventures as she unravels this dangerous web of mystery.
The force knocked Nancy against the wall.
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CHAPTER I
Runaway Helicopter
THE hall telephone rang persistently. Nancy Drew, however, sat in the living room, lost in thought.
“What did Marty King mean by her remark?” the young detective mused.
Absentmindedly Nancy arose and went to the phone. It had stopped ringing and now no one was on the line.
“Oh dear! The call may have been important!” Nancy chided herself. Then, hoping the caller would try again, she sat down on the chair near the telephone table.
At once her mind reverted to Marty King. The twenty-four-year-old platinum blond was a recent graduate of nearby Bushwick Law School. She was working in Mr. Drew’s office as a researcher.
“And not as a detective!” Nancy fumed. “She can’t take the Anderson case away from me!”
The telephone rang again. Nancy’s close friend Bess Marvin was calling.
“Hi!” said Nancy. “Have you been trying to get me?”
“No. Why?”
Nancy replied, “How about you and George coming over? I’ll tell you why. I can’t leave the house because Dad is expecting a new letter file to be delivered for his den, and I’m alone here.”
The two girls arrived shortly. They were cousins and often assisted Nancy in her detective work. The three girls were a striking trio—Nancy, an attractive, slender, strawberry blond; Bess, a dimpled, blue-eyed blond, slightly overweight; and George Fayne, who enjoyed her boyish name and had short dark hair and a slim, straight figure.
“What’s worrying you, Nancy?” Bess asked. “On the phone you sounded as if something horrible had happened.”
“It’s not that bad,” Nancy replied, forcing a smile. “I guess it’s a case of just plain jealousy.”
“You jealous?” George scoffed. “That’s one trait you don’t have. Well, out with it!”
“It’s about a young woman named Marty King who has recently come to work for Dad. She’s a lawyer.”
“Uh-uh!” Bess said with a little giggle. “You think she has a romantic interest in your dad, and/or vice versa.”
Nancy was startled by the suggestion and hastened to assure her friends this was not the situation. “Marty King is trying to be an amateur detective—”
“And,” George finished, “take your place.” Nancy nodded. “Dad mentioned he has a case he thought I’d like to