The Mystery at Lilac Inn — Book Club Kit

The printable companion for book clubs reading The Mystery at Lilac Inn: The Original 1930 Text, Restored — the fourth Nancy Drew, and the book that disappeared completely when the 1961 revision replaced it with a different novel under the same title.

Inside the kit (30 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: Emily Crandall and her inheritance, Mary Mason the too-bold housekeeper, Tom Tozzle, and the rest

• A chapter map of all twenty-five chapters, with titles verified against the 1930 text itself

• The story behind this edition — how Benson's 1930 novel vanished, and what the 1961 replacement (an impersonator, a haunted grove, a submarine) did instead

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

• A note on the period text, printed in full

• Russell H. Tandy's four 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 Mystery at Lilac Inn — 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.