It does, however, introduce the enduringly popular Togo, who becomes a mainstay in the series thereafter. This edition of the novel is considered one of the most ragged, overpopulated, and coincidence-heavy of the series. She is also captured and tied up, and as she confronts one of the novel's many miscreants, the cliffside mansion falls into the ocean, necessitating another dramatic rescue. In the long climactic sequence of the story, Nancy hides behind the statue and uses her voice to make the statue appear to speak to the con man from the train. A seaplane accident leads Nancy to rescue a client of her father who is then linked both to Mrs. There are several encounters with quirky but ultimately helpful older men. Further mysterious complications occur when Miss Morse acknowledges that she is being swindled but dismisses Nancy and when Nancy happens to overhear the crook from the train boasting about his conquest. Once in Sea Cliff, the girls hunt for the statue that resembles Nancy – and for Miss Morse, who has excited Nancy's curiosity and protectiveness. On the train, the girls observe a strange elderly woman identified as a Miss Morse, and they suspect a man who has just approached the woman is trying to swindle her. Togo follows her to the train station, and she has no choice but to bring him to Sea Cliff with her. Reluctantly, Nancy decides to keep the terrier for a little while, dubbing him Togo (after a famous Alaskan husky, who in turn was named after a Japanese admiral). As it turns out, Nancy is bound for that very area with her father and her friends Bess and George. The statue, known as "The Whispering Girl," bears an uncanny resemblance to Nancy. Owen, tells Nancy about a statue on a deserted seaside estate. In a casual observation, the "clubwoman," a Mrs. She also finds a mysterious personal ad in the handbag. Nancy helps groundskeepers retrieve the handbag and uses the notes found inside to prompt the nervous speaker during her address.
The terrier grabs the handbag of one of the guest speakers and loses it in a nearby pond. Nancy, Bess, and George encounter a troublesome stray terrier on their way to the opening festivities of a new park and recreation complex in River Heights. An updated, revised, and largely different story was published under the same title in 1970. The book was originally published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1937.
It was written by Mildred Wirt Benson, whom many readers and scholars consider the "truest" of the numerous Carolyn Keene ghostwriters, following an outline by Harriet Stratemeyer. The Whispering Statue is the fourteenth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series.
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