The Clue in the Old Stagecoach

This is one of the Nancy Drew novels that was not modified from an earlier edition of the same title. The story starts with the girls in a forest where they see a stagecoach driven by what turns out to be fake horses. A nearby old village is being reconstructed for tourists. The town, though, also needs money for a new school and it can't afford that.

The bad guys include a man a woman couple who are always asking Nancy questions and following her around, and a guy named Judd Hillary who is basically an idiot.

The stagecoach is stolen and Nancy and the others see thugs working on it, but it turns out to be the wrong stagecoach. There's a second one buried somewhere and it supposedly has a treasure of some kind of it that could help the town get the money it needs for the school.

Nancy and the girls have to spend a lot of their time avoiding the couple, avoiding explosions, cave-ins, and buildings that blow up, and doing a whole lot of digging. Altogether it's a rather good story.


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