Nancy and her friends, Bess and George, meet Joanne Byrd on a train ride home. Joanne lives at Red Gate Farm with her grandmother, but if they do not raise enough money to pay the mortgage, they will soon lose the farm! Nancy, Bess, and George decide to stay at Red Gate for a week as paying customers. Soon, they learn about the strange group of people who rent a cave on the property. They describe themselves as a nature cult called the Black Snake Colony. Nancy investigates their group and helps to uncover a ring of counterfeiters in town!
| ISBN: | 9780448095066 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 1931 |
| Author: | Carolyn Keene |
| Publisher: | Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Nancy Drew |
| Genres: |
Crime & Mystery Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women Thrillers Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |