The Bungalow Mystery — Book Club Kit

The printable companion for book clubs reading The Bungalow Mystery: The Original 1930 Text, Restored — Nancy's third case, and the last Nancy Drew that Edward Stratemeyer, the man who created her, lived to edit.

Inside the kit (29 pages, US Letter, print as many copies as your group needs):

• A two-meeting reading schedule (Chapters I–XIII, then XIV–XXV)

• Who's Who — every character as the 1930 text presents them: Laura Pendleton and her fortune, the false guardian, and the man chained in the cellar

• A chapter map of all twenty-five chapters, with titles verified against the 1930 text itself (including the first chapter's famous quirk — it is headed "CHAPTER 1," Arabic numeral, where every later chapter takes a Roman one)

• The story behind this edition — the rescue on Moon Lake, the lone impostor of 1930, and how the 1960 rewrite doubled the imposture

• "The Woman Who Wrote Nancy" — the story of Mildred Wirt Benson

• A note on the period text, printed in full

• Russell H. Tandy's original 1930 illustrations as divider pages

• 58 original discussion questions — two for every chapter, spoiler-fenced for each meeting, plus eight whole-book questions

• "Spot the Revision" — a compare-it-yourself activity

• Ruled notes pages

The companion ebook, The Bungalow Mystery — The Original 1930 Text, Restored, is also available in this store.

Companion Classics — Nancy Drew Restored, edited by Horace Harriott Jr. An independent public-domain edition; not published, authorized, or endorsed by Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW is a registered trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc., used here only to identify the 1930 work.