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Part of the fun of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories is seeing the criminals collapse under pressure and confess all. Oh, they try the silent treatment at first. But usually the criminals are so overwhelmed by Nancy\u2019s superior abilities, they confess more than they should. <\/p>\n
The Phantom of Pine Hill<\/em> has not one, but TWO great confessions. They occur right after the usually timid Bess has surprisingly saved the day. <\/p>\n Moments before, the criminal, Mr. Jenkins, had sprayed Nancy and George with knockout spray and they were lying unconscious in the mansion library. Before he could spray Bess, however, she hurled a heavy book end at the spray gun and knocked it from the man\u2019s hand. He fell off the mantelpiece where he was perched, hit his head and lay still.<\/p>\n Then Bess cleverly detained Mr. Jenkins\u2019 son Fred by first offering him delicious pudding and then a piece of cake. This is just enough time for the police to arrive and capture Fred. By now, everyone is starting to revive, and Fred begins to confess.<\/p>\n He explains that his father has two friends who are trying to find a treasure they believe was removed from a local shipwreck \u2014 the very same treasure Nancy and her chums have been seeking. With \u201ca bit of braggadocio,\u201d he says:<\/p>\n \u201cThey helped us trail you girls wherever you went. John Tregger and Hank More are smart. Oh, I shouldn\u2019t have mentioned their names.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oops.<\/p>\n Nancy then takes a turn at grilling Fred\u2019s father. <\/p>\n \u201cDid you steal my pearl necklace?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n \u201cYes. It\u2019s hidden in the cabin. You look under the floor boards. Why do I want to give it back to you? Because I admire your grit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Everybody does, buddy. That\u2019s the magic of Nancy Drew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part of the fun of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories is seeing the criminals collapse under pressure and confess all. Oh, they try the silent treatment at first. But usually the criminals are so overwhelmed by Nancy\u2019s superior abilities, they … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nancy-drewsday","tag-nancy-drew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}