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“As Nancy stood looking wistfully at the old clock she little dreamed that in the near future she would be involved in The Hidden Staircase mystery, a far more baffling case than the one she had just solved”

“she grabbed up her new doll and began to dance around with it.
“Now you can go to school too, Carol,” she told her doll”

Happy endings all around.

“Never mind helping me today. You run along and make those people happy as soon as possible.”

A little "you go girl" from the housekeeper.

“Mr. Topham thinks it’s a losing battle. I suppose you’ve heard about the family.”
“Why, no, what about them?”
“They’re practically bankrupt”

Neighborhood rumor mill. Bad guys get a bad end.

“After she had finished the story, they praised her highly for what she had done.”

A heroes ending.

“Ada wheeled upon Nancy, her face convulsed with anger. “You engineered this whole thing, Nancy Drew!” she accused bitterly.”

Scooby-Doo moment.

I'm counting 75% divided. Must be a big surprise at the end?

“Ada too had cried out. “I’ll have to go to work! Oh, I can’t bear the thought of it”

“That old lady gets ten thousand dollars?” Ada Topham said harshly”

Rudeness. Out of fear?

“wife exclaimed spitefully, “The will is a fraud. The Hoovers aren’t even relatives”