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Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||Danger By Design

Noisette Tornade
Some people said that during the war she took various pieces of artwork …. mostly from churches … and stashed them away somewhere so they wouldn’t fall into enemy hands. The artwork remains lost to this day. No one knows exactly what Noisette took — or if, indeed, she took anything. You see… From 1932 until the liberation of Paris, Noisette worked as a translator for the Germans by day and an encoder for the French Resistance by night. This, as you might imagine, made everyone suspicious of her, both French and Germans alike.

And after the war, things got ugly. Especially when people found out she was romantically involved with a German soldier. His name was Hans, Hans von Schwesterkrank. Hans left Paris after the war and never returned, leaving Noisette to fend for herself. She was tried as a collaborator in 1946 and acquitted, but the experience left her quite bitter. She never married, you know. Very private person. She served as Paris’ Director of Public Works for more than twenty years, yet not one person has been able to tell me what her favorite color was.

In any case, Noisette was terribly hurt that the city she loved had turned on her like that. After her trial, she told the press that the truth of what she’d done during the war resided in her and in the person and place she loved the most. And that was that. She never spoke about her wartime activities again.

Johannes “Hans” von Schwesterkrank
I was not a traitor, nor was Hans. He helped me because he knew it was the right thing to do.

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||Warnings at Waverly Academy

Rita Hallowell
To have known Edgar Allan Poe is to have known Genius. Though it’s now obvious I shall never be the writer I long ago imagined I would someday become, I have found all the space I need in his writings, so that I scarcely notice as my dreams depart, one by one. With a Celebratory Dinner, an elegant nine course meal served with the perfect etiquette, I bid the last of them farewell.

Years come and go, yet the past remains, a constant, undimming, shadow. And so, I have assembled a group and charged it with (albeit unwittingly) protecting and preserving my hidden treasure. Behind the Dupin grate, the black wood’s chant shall someday reveal what history deemed lost, but only after someone’s dogged curiosity and capacity for clear thought have proved that person to be worthy of the honor. I can do nothing more.

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||Midnight in Salem

Abigail Hathorne
Before you stands Abigail Hathorne, helping the accused witches escape the grasp of her own brother, Judge Hathorne himself. Abigail freed many from their holding cells, until the Judge caught her in the act and locked up in a cell deep within the Hathorne House. The statue was given the name Little Liberty in honor of her valiant efforts to free the innocent.

Frances Tuttle
More recently, Frances Tuttle, Judge Hathorne’s last direct descendant, lived in a small section of the house while the rest was left to fall into considerable disrepair. She was alone except for a part-time caregiver, Lauren Holt, who had a bedroom in the carriage house. A few months ago, Frances Tuttle passed away, while left Hathorne House without a legal heir. According to the historical statutes of Salem, after ninety days the house reverts to public property. The deadline, of which, is two days from now, at midnight.

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||Real Historical Figures

Marie Antoinette
My specialty is Marie Antoinette. Poor Marie. The most misunderstood queen of the 18th century. Marie used to visit the very tower that now belongs to this castle. I’m convinced that this place holds evidence that will forever change the way the world views Marie.

Harry Houdini
Did you ever hear about a challenge that J.J. Thompson issued to Harry Houdini back in 1925? J.J. put up a big reward for this Houdini challenge. He must’ve thought the escape was impossible. But Houdini did it and J.J. didn’t have the reward money. From what I can tell, J.J had to give Harry Houdini fifty percent of the theater as the reward.

Pacal
This is one of the museum’s most treasured pieces, a carving of King Pacal. Pacal assumed the throne at the age of twelve — can you imagine? That was 615 AD. He ruled for 68 years, at the height of the Maya civilization.

Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell? Ironsides? Hmph. I supposed they don’t teach history any longer in the US. Lady Penvellyn was a rather vocal critics of Cromwell’s policies and helped many of his enemies flee the country.

Abraham Lincoln
See, what I didn’t tell you when I gave you that letter that Jake wrote to Ruth is that I also found his diary. Which is how I found out that he’d gotten to be friends with President Lincoln and that he’d gotten a letter from Abe that he knew would be so valuable someday that he always kept it on his person.

Edgar Allan Poe
“Is that an old manuscript?”

“By Edgar Allan Poe. Never published. He told her where it was when he was on his death bed. When he died, she took it and run off so Rufus Griswold wouldn’t end up with it. At least, that’s I think that’s what happened.”

Brothers Grimm
It was here at university where the brothers’ interest in collecting folk and fairy tales was first piqued. While traveling in France as a research assistant for one of the professors, Jakob became fascinated by a German manuscript of old stories he had found. Interested in keeping the tales and the culture alive, Jakob and Wilhelm began their search for other such tales. The brothers solicited help from their friends, as well as trips to the surrounding countryside, in order to obtain as many tales as possible. A large majority of the tales came from female acquaintances, such as Dorothea Wild and the Hassenpflug sisters, Amalie and Jeanette.

Nefertari
“Ah, a love story. Break out the tissue papyrus, because when I’m done there won’t be a dry Horus in the house. Look it up, dear. Ramses II and Nefertari shared a love so cast the world could scarcely contain it. I’m talking about the kind of love you spell capital L, capital O, heart instead of a V, capital E. They stood side by side and ruled the world. But as they saw the years stretch out before them, they were keenly aware that a handful of decades would never cut it. They needed to be together, always.”

“That’s … sweet.”

“And relevant. The ancient Egyptians believed that life was little more than a dress rehearsal for eternity.”

Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a genius, visionary, and inventor who left an indelible mark on the world. With 700 patents to his name, Tesla broke new ground in research and design to usher in a second industrial revolution. Many of today’s technologies are based on Tesla’s designs.

John Hathorne
You stand before the remains of Salem’s most zealous, and conniving judge. So lacking in morals was Judge Hathorne, that he sentenced innocents to death while claiming the estates of the dead as his own. Unlike the remorseful Judge Sewall, Hathorne never felt any guilt for his part in the Salem witch trials.

Nancy Drew Posthumous and Unseen Characters||Secret of the Scarlet Hand

The Whisperer of Silent Secrets
Pacal called it a prison because it was designed to prevent the Whisperer’s soul from entering the Underworld. The Whisperer came from a distinguished line of royal scribes. I can’t seem to remember her name. But I do recall that she wrote an account of Maya history that greatly angered Pacal, because of the way it depicted his assent to throne.

From the age of twelve, when he came to the throne, Pacal claimed to be divinely appointed, the first true, authentic king of the Maya. Then, the Whisperer came along and wrote that Pacal was only king because his mother pulled some strings. It was quite a blow to Pacal’s image. Pacal swore that the Whisperer’s words would never see the light of day. He put her body, her soul, and her writings all in a tomb and locked it up tight.

Poppy Dada
Have you ever heard that saying that a work of art is never finished, just abandoned? Well, I’m taking that idea to the limit, by making art that will keep changing as different people encounter, perceive, and interact with it. I’m tired of artwork that says “don’t touch”. I’m all about sending my work into the world and seeing how to continues to “become”. Don’t you see? It’s an organic process. I mean, how can people relate to art if it doesn’t come to life, grow, and die, just like they do? The carving is part of something bigger now.

… Has Taylor been pushing those Oaxacan cookies on you? You haven’t eaten one, have you? Let’s put it this way: his trip to Oaxaca was about two years ago, and he’s been trying to move those rancid lard biscuits ever since.

Prudence Rutherford
Oh, yes! Franklin told me you’d be calling. Such dreadful news to hear about Beech Hill. I will do everything in my power to help you catch those rapscallions! To think how they violated the sanctity of my domicile! Good heavens!

Franklin Rose
Nancy, hi. It’s Franklin Rose. I’m calling because, it’s just—this theft is very bad news for the museum. You can’t imagine the limb we went out on to acquire that Pacal carving. It’s been one of the museum’s main attractions. Um, I don’t want to take you away from your internship, but if you can do a little investigating, well, I think I can speak for the whole board when I say we’d be very grateful.

Nancy Drew Posthumous and Unseen Characters||The Final Scene

J.J Thompson
Dear Mr. Houdini: Congratulations on your latest unbelievable feat! Never have I seen the crowd at the Royal Palladium so enthralled by a performer. Stupendous! Honestly, I was assured that the “Watery Grave” was inescapable, even for a master such as yourself. Really, if I’d had any notions of risking my money, I might not have offered so grandiose a reward. After all, what made is made of money? Is that right, Mr. Houdini?

My point is—well, I must admit that I cash flow is a little tight at the moment. More specifically, I do not have the $50,000 available to give you at this time. The theater is young (but bound for glory, I’m sure you’ll agree!) and my bank account is still recovering from the building expense. I’m sure you understand, sir. However! This letter is an announcement of golden opportunity, Mr. Houdini, not one of gloomy regret. In lieu of cash (and in accordance with my lawyer’s counsel), I am prepared to offer you a reward far more valuable than cash!

Louisa Falcone
My grandma, Louisa Falcone, designed the molds for all the insane plasterwork that you see in this lobby and in the auditorium. … But there’s more. I guess the architect-owner guy J.J. Thompson ran out of cash before the building was done. He never paid my grandma dime one, and then denied that she had ever done the work in the first place! She was the artist type, not a deal-maker. I guess she’d never signed any contractual stuff with J.J. and she didn’t have the resources to sue him, or any of that. So I guess she just had to let it go.

Eustacia Andropov
Harry was only my cousin by marriage, but my husband is dead and so is Harry, so I guess that makes me nobody’s cousin. … Harry made a plan to give his half of the theater to someone he admired, a young magician, I assume. Perhaps a protégé. I remember my husband telling me this.

Nancy Drew Unseen Characters||Phantom of Venice

Gina aka “Scaramuccia”
Even someone with youthful energy and talent will find stealing it a challenge. Which is why I suggest you contact Gina as soon as possible. The more time you give her, the more details on the system she will be able to give you.

Hildegard Killian
It started with Hildegard Killian, a wealthy pork belly heiress in Chicago, who gave Helena a list of the Venetian art objects for which she would happily pay a small fortune should Helena somehow “obtain” them for her.

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||Favorite Penvellyns, part II

Penelope
I don’t know very much about her, except that she was very loved by practically everyone in England, and there were a million poems written about her. If I have a boyfriend, I’d never let him write a poem about me. Blech.

Brigitte
She never married and was bonkers for astronomy; she adopted her sister’s son, Richard, who later got killed at Waterloo.

Isabelle
That was Isabelle. She wrote many letters about the French Revolution and actually saw Marat’s dead body in the bathtub. Talk about gross!

Edward
He was a big explorer and went all over the world. He wasn’t very close with his son, who was also an explorer. They’d only see each other by chance in weird remote places like Samarkand or Walla Walla.

Cassandra
Cassandra was totally obsessed with lawn tennis and was one of the first people in England to have a court installed in her home. Hector was the first ball boy.

Sophia
She was a big collector of Impressionist artwork, but most of it was destroyed in a fire.

Arthur
He lived in the Wild West in the Americas and was a bandit with El Diablo’s gang!

Rachel
She died in France during the war. I guess she worked for the French resistance.

Alan
He was my grandfather but I didn’t know him because he died when I was little. I guess he was nice.

Leticia
Loves plants, hates noise. You can ask her about it. She’s usually in the conservatory with her plants.

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||The Haunted Carousel

Rolfe Kessler
The work goes slowly, but it goes. I just completed the fifth horse, my favorite so far. I call him Foxfire, which is a phosphorescent fungus that grows on rotting wood. I’ve always thought fondly of that name. Every night music plays in the ballroom above my workshop, every night a hundred feet scamper back and forth overhead. When I complained to Mr. Rousseau, he said that if I worked in the daytime like everyone else, there would be no music to bother me. He doesn’t understand that I can only work when the world is as I feel—dark, dangerous, unknowable. But you understand, my darling wife. You are the only person on Earth who has ever understood everything that can be understood about me. And I miss you terribly.

Amelia Kessler
But by 1921, his severe mood swings, and his angry insistence that that the horses he carved existed as living creatures in a parallel dimension, had finally driven his wife, Amelia, away for food. When he realized she was never coming back, he put down his carving tools and went looking for her. It took him two years to find her. She died of tuberculosis soon afterwards. No one knows what became of Kessler after that. Homeless, friendless, and now passionless, he simply vanished from history.  

Darryl Trent
My father was a frustrated inventor. After he died, I discovered … that… in his study. In his will, he said he made it just for me. … My father said he invented Miles in order to reacquaint me with my childhood. It always bothered him that I was never as happy-go-lucky as he was.

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters|| Secret of Shadow Ranch

Dirk Valentine
I like vexing your brain, because when you are thinking real hard, like when you are playing the piano, you are more beautiful than anything in the world. I am sure to be out of here before you find my treasure, but in case I am not, know that is all yours, and that you are more precious to me than ten thousand treasures put together. … P.S. I do not, and never will, hold what you father did to me against you.

Frances Humber
My beloved Dirk is no more. I shall never see him again, and now you will never see me again, for I am on my way East, there to spend the rest of my life. I will never return to the Territory of Arizona: not even when my father, when I despise with every part of my being, has left this Earth.  But know this, sweet Ellie. Dirk told me that he had hidden something of great value and that, when all was in place, he would start me in pursuit of it (he was forever inventing fanciful ways to tax my brain, and was quite clever himself.) Then, thanks to my father, he was arrested. Perhaps he wrote me from jail and his note was lost, or perhaps he grew to hate me. But he never told me how to find what he had hidden and I am too heartsick to care.

Meryl Humber
I got hold of a note Frances sent to Dirk and saw where they was going to meet. So I got a posse and we caught Dirk and now he is in jail. The judge is coming next week and I hear he is a hanging judge, so Dirk most likely ain’t long for this world. Frances won’t say nothing to me no more and ses she never will again.

Ellie Humber
See, my great Aunt Ellie was Frances Humber’s cousin. When she died, she left me a bunch of stuff, includin’ an old letter she’d gotten from Frances. In the letter, Frances said that Dirk Valentine had hidden a bunch of loot somewhere and wanted Frances to find it by following the clues he left for her. … After Valentine met his end, Frances was too broken-hearted to care about some treasure. She told Aunt Ellie that if she could find it, she could keep it.

Cashmeer Valentine
Probably his father, Cashmeer Valentine. He was a blacksmith over in Prescott. … Dirk worshipped his father, which is ironic, because by the time Dirk was arrested, his father had pretty much disowned him out of shame.

Nancy Drew Posthumous and Unseen Characters||Shadow at the Water’s Edge

Kasumi Shimizu
She loved people who think for themselves, and she loved stubbornness. … Kasumi herself is very stubborn. Was very stubborn. But it made her the most beloved of the children in her school when she was young. She could never stand to see injustice done to others. It made me very proud of her, but that also has its bad side.

Savannah Woodham
I’ve been a lot of places that they say is haunted… but none fit the ticket like that spooky ol’ Ryokan Hiei. I never got to finish up the chapter on the ryokan like I was supposed to. Between us girls, I’m glad of that. You getting’ much out of the family?

Logan Mitchell
He’s like my own lil’ Georgia bulldog; he can be a little aggressive sometimes, a little dopey others, but always loyal. He’s one of the good ones when you get right down to it.

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||Secret of the Old Clock

Josiah Crowley
He was this old man that lived next door. He died last year. He spent most of his time here at the Inn, and he led my mom and me to believe that he’d left a lot of money for us in his will. He gave us a clock, and afterwards, he’d always point to it and get this little twinkle in his eye and say, “Time will tell.” But when they finally found his will? He didn’t leave us a penny.

Gloria Crandall
Gloria and me, we were best friends, ya know. The two of us ran this swell little dress shop over in Capital City. But then, she got hitched and I didn’t, and the next thing I know, she’s writing me saying it would sure take a load off her mind if I could take care of her little girl should something ever happen to her.

Nancy Drew Posthumous Characters||Message in a Haunted Mansion

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Applegate
According to legend, the infamous masked bandit, El Diablo, fell madly in love with Lizzie Applegate during her years as an entertainer at gold mining camps. At the end of Lizzie’s performances, El Diablo would ride his jet-black steed up to the stage and leave a bouquet of gardenias. It was rumored that Lizzie joined El Diablo’s band of thieves and was present at the Christmas Gold Robbery of 1878.

Diego “El Diablo” Valdez
I’ve heard of a Diego Valdez. He was a wealthy rancher who lived in the 1800s. I just read a book about him for my history class. …  He was sort of a hermit and never married, but he was extremely generous. He gave away thousands of dollars.

Wing Tang
I came back to San Francisco in 1871 and worked as a chef for Miss Applegate for years at the Hotel Chinois and then at the Golden Gardenia, which we called “Gum Bo Fu”.