With the tower room, the twisted candles, and the mysterious old man forming the basis for the setting, there’s just enough of a creepy factor to make this an enticing read. Throw in some secret and stealthy searches, the usual bad guys, and a few overzealous relatives and you’ve got the makings of a good mystery. I liked this one better than #8 but not as well as some of the others. I can see kids being enchanted by the story but as an adult I found it just average.

They are out of print now (I'm fortunate to own all but a couple they published) but Applewood Books turned back the hands of time and gave the real Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys back to readers with these facsimile editions. The reproduction of the original dust jackets conjured up images and phrases from the enchanted America of yesteryear. Faithfully restored to its original form, word-for-word, The Sign of the Twisted Candles is the Nancy your mother or grandmother remembers. These beautifully r...

Actual rating: 2.5 StarsI just popped my Nancy Drew cherry and it went basically how I expected it to go. Only more boring!Nancy's great mystery was about an old man with a lot of money and his family fighting with each other and waiting for him to die so they could have a share of his fortune. Meanwhile a young girl named Carol is the only one who actually cares about the old man. Please tell me you already can't tell what's going to happen?Maybe this book was exciting back when it was written,...

Though written better than some of the ND books, this one is so convoluted I can only imagine myself at eleven or twelve years old saying what? What just happened? What?There's an old man being kept 'sortof' as a prisoner in the tower room of a mansion, and said mansion is now a restaurant. Said mansion is also filled with all sorts of rooms and corridors and even, added at the very end of the story, a hidden staircase. Okay, so when you need a way for evil persons and their cohorts to get in an...

Nancy, Bess, and George are on their way to check up on an old relative of the Marvins and the Faynes. He lives in an inn run by a couple and their foster daughter. His relatives believe that he may not be treated well. But as it turns out, Nancy discovers more than an old man at the inn. She discovers a creepy mystery involving lost treasures, lost heirs, and family feuds. This had a very different tone than the usual Nancy Drew books. For one thing, there is conflict between Nancy and her frie...

This was another audiobook listen for the kids and me. The twins weren't so sure about it at first (I guess they're used to the more modern installments, and this was our first vintage Nancy Drew), and I had to convince them to give it more than one chapter. They ended up loving it.

Thanks to Melanie Rehak's enlightening treatise on the Stratemeyer company; I know Walter Karig penned volumes 8-10, after hardworking Mildred A. Wirt refused a pay cut. Walter blew the Carolyn Keene cover; a guarded pseudonym. I was aware of keener enjoyment of “The Sign Of The Twisted Candles”; noticeably more creative and engrossing than volume #8. My grade is three stars because this fantastic setting did not milk the awe of searching-out hiding places. It furnished little more than idiots r...

In my great re-read of the ND series, so far #9 is the top. . . more energy, more actual conflict, and a dead guy (old, of natural causes, but still. . . .). Families were conflicted and Nancy was caught in the middle since her good buddies, Bess and George were in the conflicted families. The drama never seems to involve Nance directly, but in this case it did. The writing by committee that just about killed #8 completely is not an issue in #9 - which means the committee may have simply delegat...

Seeking shelter during a terrible storm, teen sleuth Nancy Drew and her friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne find themselves at the Sign of the Twisted Candles, a Civil War-era mansion turned into a restaurant and hotel. Here they encounter Sadie Wipple, the much-put-upon adopted daughter of the couple running the restaurant, and Mr. Asa Sidney, the elderly man who owns the mansion, and who is turning one hundred on the day they arrive. Celebrating with Mr. Sidney, the friends little realize tha...

Read these many, many years ago. Needed a book with a green cover for a challenge and came across the book. Fun read, will have to read a few more.

This audiobook is very short, but I'm about 45% of the way through and I can't continue.The story is quite dull - it's about a 100-year-old man whose claim to fame is inventing twisted candles - you can get the picture just from that tidbit, I think. The narrator is also quite childish. I doubt I'll ever pick up the book to complete the story. I'm just not interested in the fate of this man and I have no idea why Nancy and Carson Drew have rallied around him so decisively to try to handle his af...

4.5 stars & 5/10 hearts. So apparently when Nancy ISN'T in trouble with the police, she's being kidnapped by her enemies?This book was really mysterious. The villains were quite frankly terrible and I was a little surprised at how intense things got at the end. Carol was a sweetheart and I liked old Abe... I was confused by the feud, but then I was reading so fast, it's not surprising. The Bess & George issue was a surprising and interesting touch! I really liked Carson Drew in this one too. A b...

I have to call this a favorite.... this was the book that started my obsession with reading. My parents bribed me into reading by telling me I could have $1 for every Nancy Drew book I finished. The Sign of the Twisted Candles was the first one I finished and I LOVED it. I loved it enough to keep going without remembering to get the $$ from the parents.I've been a bookworm ever since. :)

My daughter and I enjoyed this as a read-aloud..we used the original version, and I really like the way the original Nancy Drew books are written. This was a great mystery 'in an old house,' one of my favorite types of mysteries.

Ya can't beat a Nancy Drew Mystery!

The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Knee is a mystery book which follows Nancy solving a mystery. The mystery is that Nancy stops at a restaurant in a storm but as usual, discovers some things that lead to her solving the same. Plot and mystery The plot was simple, and a little boring. All Nancy Drew books that I have read, the plot and mystery is really simple. Nancy goes somewhere, finds something, has a gut feeling, talks to her father, investigates further (which is really nothing,...

Nancy, George and Bess visit George and Bess's family members at an inn known as "The Sign of the Twisted Candles". Here they're caught in a family feud over the oldest member of the family's fortune. 100-year-old Asa Sydney passes away, but no one knows what became of his priceless fortune. And let me tell you, this family gets vicious. They're very cutthroat and manipulative over who gets what. But of course Nancy is willing to help out, especially when it comes to young Carol, a foster child

Finally! Another Nancy Drew book with a proper meal in it!Nancy and her friends find themselves at an inn, where the caretakers (as usual) have made the unwise decision of abusing the elderly owner who may or may not have a large fortune to dispose of in his will. This happens often in Nancy Drew novels, it seems.At any rate, while the caretakers are taking a break from belittling their staff and neglecting the elderly benefactor, Nancy places a fancy lunch order, because, surprise! Mr. Elderly

I should be embarrassed to add this to my "read" books, but I just finished it and wanted to record it in Goodreads. Wanting something light and fun to read, I selected it from our bookroom, and enjoyed every minute reading it...again. The last time I read it was a looooong time ago. Today the language is rather stilted, but the action moves right along. Why the old man wanted to keep Sadie's heritage a secret is not revealed. That part of the book was nonsensical to me, but then again, it is a

Another classic Nancy Drew episode. Nancy helps her friends George and Bess check on a long-lost relative. I found it very ironic that the mystery they ask Nancy to help with, almost ruins their friendship. That just added a little bonus to the overall mystery. I really liked that Nancy interacted more with her father in this episode. I loved seeing their relationship up-close.

Wasn’t as great as the other ones, to be honest. But it did make me stay up till midnight. 😃 Every chapter just ended with a question so of course I had to finish it. The only problem was that it went so fast and the story was a little dull, but Nancy Drew herself is really fantastic and she expands my love for mystery! Perfect read for a cold and rainy day!! 3.5 stars

A hundred year old man who sounds like a fifty year old? Then he is suddenly frail and dies in his sleep! That is a little unbelievable, but otherwise the story has the usual nancy Drew plot: danger, criminals, a poor person, and cops who will do anything she asks of them!

2.5--like, it was fine but literally there wasn't a mystery

One of the challenges of my book group wwas to read a childhood favorite. I grew up with Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames and the Hardy boys. In this book, Nancy tries to help an old man who is imprisoned in the tower of a home he owns. The caretakers are keeping people from seeing him, and stealing his fortune. Nancy discovers their scheme, finds hidden hoards of stocks and jewelry (marked by the sign of the twisted candle) and discovers that the old man's great grandaughter has been working for the car...

Oh, no! In this book, Bess and George have a tiff with Nancy while things slowly heat up with Ned. Nancy and her father team up to thwart greedy heirs as they maneuver to steal an elderly man's fortune. Some surprising violence ensues but all is well, as always, in the end.

When Nancy's friends ask her to investigate the treatment of an elderly relative of theirs things get a bit...twisted. Nancy heads out to an old inn called "The Sign of the Twisted Candles" (which as a name for an inn doesn't really make sense but oh well). There she finds an elderly man confined to a tower room being looked after by a couple and their foster daughter. As time passes it becomes apparent that the couple are mistreating both the elderly man and the child. Nancy takes matters into

Full of adventure and mystery on every page. I will say that Nancy is often saving the future of some poor orpaned girl who one day will inherit a fortune, perhaps a bit far fetched, but fun for young girls. A dear friend of mine recently told me that her seven year old granddaughter is working her way through Nancy's mysteries, and loving them. I think it's wonderful that yet another group of young girls are enjoying these mysteries as much as we once did. I will also note that I don't seem to

It's been a minute since I last read this book. I got my mystery-loving brother into Nancy Drew recently and he's been listening to each of the books one after another nonstop. We've listened to some together, this one being one of them, and it brought back so many memories! Nancy Drew was one of my favorite mystery series when I was little, and it was fun re-visiting the world. The mystery was good, and I enjoyed this book, albeit I'll admit my brother and I joked around about the story through...

This is my favorite Nancy Drew books, and one of my favorite books that I have ever read. I can't recommend this one enough.

As usual, this series delivers.