The Hidden Staircase — Book Club Kit

The Hidden Staircase — Book Club Kit. The complete printable companion to the restored 1930 edition of Nancy Drew's second case (also in this store). Inside the 24-page PDF:

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

• A Who's Who of the 1930 cast — Nathan Gombet, the Turnbull twins, Helen Corning — and a chapter map of all 25 original chapters

• The story behind this edition: the three Nancy Drew books launched on one day in April 1930, Edward Stratemeyer's death two weeks later, and how the 1959 rewrite turned Gombet into Gomber, The Mansion into Twin Elms, and twin sisters into a mother and daughter

• The Woman Who Wrote Nancy: Mildred Wirt Benson, who wrote this book at twenty-four and called it her favorite

• The edition's note on the period text, 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 haunting. Format: printable PDF, US Letter, yours to keep.

An independent public-domain companion, not affiliated with or endorsed by Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW is a registered trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc., used here only to identify the 1930 work.