Picture of Guilt

by Carolyn Keene

Book Overview

Spending the Thanksgiving holiday in Paris, Nancy meets professor Ellen Mathieson and finds her curiosity piqued by the death of the professor's research assistant, which mimics the murder of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671881922
• ISBN13: 9780671881924
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

My favorite Nancy Drew Book

Book Review By Lena Hampson6 This is a book report on "The Nancy Drew Files 101" known as "The Picture of Guilt" by Carolyn Keene. The characters in the story are: Nancy Drew a detective, George Fayne a detective too, Ellen Mathieson a professor, Pamela, David, and Keith who are all students of Professor Mathieson, Censier, Solo, and Jules. The story is a murder mystery and takes place at a market, an art studio, and an apartment all in Paris, France. The plot begins with Nancy, George and Pamela sitting at Pamela's favorite cafe when all of a sudden they hear brakes and the blare of a truck's horn. Nancy, George, and Pamela go outside and find Jules under a truck's wheel and his brief case is missing. Nancy, George and Pamela then go to Professor Mathieson and tell her the bad news. Josephine Solo was also killed in a similar car accident 6 months earlier and they think that murder is going on. Nancy and George travel around Paris looking for clues on how Solo and Jules were killed. Nancy and George almost get killed in two other accidents during there investigation. Nancy and George think that Solo may have been blackmailed because they found her checkbook with no money and they think Jules found out about Solo being blackmailed and that is why he was murdered. Solo was not being blackmailed but was painting under a different name that no one knew about. Jules found this out and put it in his briefcase. Nancy, George and Pamela find Solo's secret art studio. While they are there they hear Keith and Censier fighting and Keith gets knocked down and then Censier leaves. Keith, Nancy, George and Pamela are caught in a fire but Nancy unlocks the door and they get out of the room and take Keith out of the smoke. Nancy and Pamela run to find Censier and a big fight starts between Censier and Nancy. Keith came to help Nancy and knocked out Censier. The paintings by Solo were trying to be sold by Censier and Keith was trying to get a part of the profits. Censier and Keith were arrested and the story was told to the police. All of Solos paintings were put into a special art wing at the university by Professor Mathieson.

My favorite Nancy Drew Book

The characters are: Nancy Drew a detective George Fayne a detectif too,Ellen Mathieson a professor, Pamela, David ,Keith are all students of professer Mathieson,Censtier, Solo,and Jules.The story takes place at a market, an art stoteo,an apartment,and Paris.Nancy, George and Pamela are sitting at Pamelas favorite cafe wen all of a sudden they hear the squeal of braks and the blair of a trucks horn. An instant later they hear the screams of people. Nancy,George,and Pamela go out side and find someone undre a trucks whel.

Great Book! Worth Reading!

I gave this four stars since there has been better nancy drew books. But this is a very good book and definitley is not a waste of money. If you are a nancy drew fan make shure u have read this one!

Great Teen Mystery

Nancy Drew, America's favorite teen detective, is taking over Paris this Thanksgiving, where she will be living in an apartment next door to Ellen Mathieson, a professor, who studies the art of painter Josephine Solo. But suddenly, things turn dangerous. Ellen's research assistant turns up dead, killed in an accident exactly like the one that took Josephine Solo's life just 6 months previously. As Nancy begins digging for clues into this mysterious murder, she finds that Josephine Solo didn't die secret free. In fact, Nancy finds scandal, and the secret that Josephine may have been living a double life. Paris is filled with all of the motives for murder, romance, greed, money, secrets, and more. Now Nancy needs to put all of these things together to find the murderer and crack the case.This is one of my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Keene did a fantastic job with creating an elaborate, yet intricately woven mystery, in which teen Nancy Drew fans will relish in. A must-have this year. Especially around Thanksgiving.Erika Sorocco

Art, scandel, and murder run rampit in France this winter.

I now see why France is such a popular place to visit something is always going on. Murder, theft, random accidents, art, and parties. I liked this book it was suspenseful. The characters were twisted and the suspense never died. My favorite part of the book was where Nancy was right on the edge of solving the crime then gets new leads that disturb the previous leads. I felt bad for George. She unfortunantly gets involved with the wrong guy yet again. Nancy finds out that Georges' new love not only does some terrible stealing, but he also tries to kill both George and Nancy by locking them in a room on the top floor of an abandened building. However that happens in the later part of the story and you know that there were more accidents then that one such as Nancy coincidentally almost falling down a very long flight of concrete stairs. The plot thickens as you read further into the book. You got to read it from the beginning to understand why all of the coinciding accidents occur.