The Secret of the Golden Pavilion
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The Secret of the Golden Pavilion | |
Author | Carolyn Keene |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Nancy Drew stories |
Genre(s) | Detective, Mystery novel |
Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap |
Publication date | 1959 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
ISBN | NA |
Preceded by | Nancy Drew: The Haunted Showboat |
Followed by | Nancy Drew: The Clue in the Old Stagecoach |
The Secret of the Golden Pavilion is the thirty-sixth volume in the Nancy Drew mystery series. It was first published in 1959 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual author was ghostwriter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
[edit] Plot Summary
Nancy is on the case, once again! Her father’s client, Mr.Sakamaki needs help. His deceased grandfather’s estate, Kaluakua has a mystery nobody knows. Its Golden Pavilion may be haunted, and two middle-aged suspects claim to be the grand children of Grandfather Sakamaki and are going to run and take over the estate. Nancy must prove them wrong and stop a terrible gang called the Double Scorps who are trying to steal the secret kings cape in the Golden Pavilion. Are the posing grandchildren part of the Double Scorps and are going to inherit the estate for all of the Double Scorps? What does a sacred king’s cape have to do with the Secret of the Golden Pavilion? And who is that ghost that dances by the Pavilion every night? Nancy is going to find out everything, from the Double Scorps, to perhaps two Grandfather Sakamaki. Could the Grandfather Sakamaki in California be the wrong one that owns the Kaluakua? Help Nancy Drew solve the mystery!