The Mysterious Mannequin

The Mysterious Mannequin is the forty-seventh volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1970 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.^[1] The actual author was a ghostwriter following a plot outlined by Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, heir to the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

The perplexing disappearance of Carson Drew's Turkish client, Farouk Tahmasp, is followed by the anonymous gift of an oriental rug. Decoding a message woven into the decorative border, Nancy embarks on a difficult search for a missing mannequin, which leads to Aisha, a young Turkish woman living in River Heights. But then, a robber tries to steal the rug from the Drew home. Nancy, Bess, George, Ned, Burt, Carson, Dave, and Aisha travel to Istanbul to search for more clues. Bess disappears during the search and Nancy is attacked in the Great Cistern while they search for the sender of the carpet.