The Secret of the Old Clock — Book Club Kit

Reading the original Nancy Drew with your book club? This is the kit that makes the meeting.

The Secret of the Old Clock — Book Club Kit is the complete printable companion to the restored 1930 edition of the first Nancy Drew mystery (also in this store). Inside the 24-page PDF:

• A two-meeting reading schedule (Chapters I–XIII, then XIV–XXV) sized for a short classic

• A Who's Who of the 1930 cast and a chapter map of all 25 original chapters

• The story behind this edition — how the 1959 revision cut five chapters, aged Nancy from sixteen to eighteen, and traded her roadster for a convertible

• The Woman Who Was Carolyn Keene: a one-page profile of Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote this book for a flat fee of $125

• The note on the 1930 text's period attitudes, reproduced in full

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

• "Spot the Revision": a compare-it-yourself activity built on the verified differences between the 1930 and 1959 texts

• Ruled notes pages, and Russell H. Tandy's original 1930 illustrations throughout

Print it, pass it around, and argue about the will. Format: printable PDF, US Letter, yours to keep.

This is an independent public-domain companion, not affiliated with or endorsed by the publisher of the modern Nancy Drew series.