The Password to Larkspur Lane (Nancy Drew, Book 10)

by Carolyn Keene

Book Overview

Blue bells will be singing horses This strange message, attached to the leg of a wounded homing pigeon, involves Nancy Drew in a dangerous mission. Somewhere an elderly woman is being held prisoner in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448095106
• Release Date: June 1960
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

I got this book right on time. It is definitely a great book, but all Nancy Drew mysteries are grea

A thrilling new adventure

This book is about another exciting adventure with Nancy Drew and her two friends Bess and George. It all starts when a pigeon drops down from somewhere in the sky. Nancy reads a secret message and the mystery begins. Before she can solve that mystery, however, she gets involved in another mystery involving a girl's grandmother. She eventually finds out that the two mysteries are linked. This is an exciting, suspenseful book, full of twists and turns. I highly recommend it!

ANOTHER Nancy Drew that I love!

I have read BOTH versions of Password to Larkspur Lane, AND have seen the movie Nancy Drew Detective (1938) on televsion more than once. I have always liked this Nancy Drew like many others that I have read; though I have liked both versions. I have in general liked the originals better than the "new stories for today's readers". The original Nancy Drews paint a picture of life in the Thirties and early Forties, when there were no automatic transmissions, dial phones, transistor radios, or televsions, much less DVD's, audio CD's, automated teller machines, PC's. Indeed, in the era when the original Nancy Drews were written, THERE WERE NOT EVEN MUNTZ TV'S! Two facets of Password to Larkspur Lane stand out, and are particularly funny. One is the use of the phrase "singing horses" as password, changing it from "blue bells". Imagine horses singing into microphones! I can see WHY those gangsters chose "singing horses" as password, as larks are associated with singing, and spurs with riding horses. That is NOT the REAL origin of the word "larkspur", but the gangsters knew that Dr. Spires HEARD the word "blue bells" used, so changed it to something SUGGESTING larkspurs. Nancy at first could not figure out why the flowers were called larkspurs, as horses do not sing and larks do not suggest horseback riding, but THEN could see why "singing horses" was chosen. (Mister Ed can sing, but that's about all.) The other funny part was Dr. Bull's use of a dummy telephone to pretend to call the cops. Dr. Bull, called Bell in the new version, could not see why Nancy WANTED him to call the cops, or why she called it a dummy telephone. Nancy wanted him to call the police to get the racketeers arrested, and she declared "the telephone is a dummy because there are no___" but stopped short of saying "wires" as the quack nut-doctor saw HIMSELF that this telephone was not hooked up to switching machinery, and ccould not fool Nancy. As there were no cell phones in 1933 or even 1966, such a phone as Dr. Bull/Bell used WAS a dummy telephone! (Whether this counterfeit sanatorium HAD a real phone is not clear.) At all events, a friend of mine called a dummy telephone a BULL TULLOPHONE, Bull Tull for short, and drew pictures of pairs of phones, one hooked up with letter-number phone number, the one with no wires all-digits, to show dislike for digitization! Then there was the happy ending when police, her father, and Ned flew in to arrest the participants in this racket, and Mrs. Mary Eldridge's reunion with her nephew John, his wife, and little Marie. ALl in all, a very good Nancy Drew.

It's like a Movie!!!

I really liked this book!! I have about 16 other Nancy Drew Books and I love them all, but this was one of my favorites! I became unaware that I was even reading a book! I was like I was watching a movie in my head.In this book, Nancy discovers a carrier pigeon that has a note attatched to it's leg it says something about Larkspurs and Bluebells so she becomes suspicicious and finds a............. well, you'll just have to see!!! YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the best book

it is a very good book. nacy keeps you in such suspense. you keep on reading and reading.i finish it in i day.

A very good mystery book

I like this Nancy Drew book because it is so well written, and the auther makes you feel like it really happened! You may not like this book, but I like the series because there are so many books to chose from. I like the way Nancy thinks. All of her friends are nice. They they are not weird or mean. The books can be funny, but not the funniest books in the world, so if you only read very funny books, do not read this series. Nancy Drew are very complicated books, so I do not recommend it for kids under six because it is so complicated, and it may be too scary. The book I read was The Password to Larkspur Lane. In the book Nancy finds a bird, and it leads her to a mystery. The last part is the part that is scary, because she gets trapped. I think you should....READ THIS SERIES!!!!