title: The Nancy Who Drew: The Memoir That Solved A Mystery
author:  Nancy Wait 
description: Nancy Wait was born in Chicago and grew up in New York City. She studied acting at the High School of Performing Arts and Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh. In 1969 she went to London to study at RADA and had a career in England during the 1970s, appearing in film, television and theater, under the name Nancie Wait. After a spiritual awakening in 1976, she returned to New York and began a second career as a free-lance artist of architectural renderings and portraits. She also painted a series from her imagination, and it was after these she decided to write about her life. She is currently working on a second memoir.
zlib_text: CHAPTER I
  Three-Way Alarm
  “NANCY, you’re kidding. No statue can whisper!”
  A twinkle came into Nancy Drew’s blue eyes. She tossed back her reddish-
  gold hair and looked at the slender, athletic girl standing in front of her.
  “George, the statue I’m talking about used to whisper before it
  disappeared.”
  A third girl in the Drews’ attractive living room, Bess Marvin, spoke up.
  “Where is this marvel?” She was blond and slightly plump and dark-haired
  George Fayne’s cousin.
  George grinned. “The marvelous marble!” The other two girls laughed.
  Nancy said, “I don’t know anything more about it, but Dad has a client
  coming to dinner who will explain everything. She has a case for him and
  he hinted that he wants you girls and me to help solve a mystery in
  connection with it.”
  “Sounds great!” George remarked.
  Bess, more cautious than her cousin, looked at Nancy. “Will it be a nice
  straight mystery, or one that’s going to scare the wits out of me?” Nancy
  said she knew nothing about the case.
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