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    The Stolen Masterpiece: A Nancy Keene Mystery
    The Stolen Masterpiece: A Nancy Keene Mystery
    The Stolen Masterpiece: A Nancy Keene Mystery
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    The Stolen Masterpiece: A Nancy Keene Mystery

    By Louise Hathaway

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    Join precocious teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, on another of her international adventures. This book finds her in Amsterdam visiting her newly-found Dutch relatives who have recently discovered a secret room in their house that contains valuable artwork, including a Vermeer masterpiece worth millions. Someone has stolen it, and it’s up to Nancy and her team to find out who. If you enjoy travelogues, this book includes descriptions of some of the writer's favorite sights in Holland.

    Here is a great reader review for this book on Goodreads:
    "The Stolen Masterpiece is book #5 of the Nancy Keene mystery series, a parody of Nancy Drew. It was by far my favorite story and most like Nancy Drew.
    Nancy has delved into ancestry.com, after finding letters written by her great grandfather to family in Amsterdam and has discovered family living there: Dominique and his family- parents Hans and Veronique and sister Nortje. This is her mother’s family. When Mr. Keene has to travel to Amsterdam on business Nancy, Beth, and Hannah, who are on spring break, accompany him. We are treated to some history and descriptions of scenery. Nancy also knows quite a bit about famous paintings, especially by Vermeer and Van Gogh. At the art museum they meet Sophie, the curator, who seems interested in Mr. Keene. Nancy promotes the attraction between the two until they become mutually interested and then seems jealous.
    Dominique, a cute guy her age, shows Nancy into a secret room they recently found that is full of old paintings. They have deduced that the Jewish people who lived in their house in the World War II era hid them away before being taken off to concentration camp. His family has tried to trace the family but they were all killed in the war. Nancy is sure that one of them is an unsigned Vermeer. Before they can do anything about it, the house is broken into and the painting stolen! Who knew about the secret room? The carpenters who fixed it when a wall was ruined with water? One guy at school who Dominique told? The kids set up a “sting” to trap the thief but before they execute it Nancy figures out who the thief is and recovers the painting. I don’t think the thief was ever punished. The Vermeer is donated to an art museum; the other paintings that are also worth much money will be sold and Hans and his family will make many euros.
    At the book’s end Nancy and her chums appear on a TV show to promote genealogy."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLouise Hathaway
    Release dateJul 5, 2016
    ISBN9781310273292
    The Stolen Masterpiece: A Nancy Keene Mystery
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    Louise Hathaway

    Louise Hathaway is a pen name of a husband and wife writing team. They write in several different genres including murder/ mystery; romance, travel, time travel, and literary criticism.

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      The Stolen Masterpiece - Louise Hathaway

      The Stolen Masterpiece:

      A Nancy Keene Mystery

      By Louise Hathaway

      Copyright Louise Hathaway 2016

      Smashwords Edition

      This book is dedicated to my Dutch friend Amy who kindly endured all my odd questions about Dutch culture, traditions, and language. I couldn’t have written this without her patient help.

      Canals in Amsterdam

      Table of Contents

      Chapter I: A New Pen Pal

      Chapter II: Discovering Amsterdam

      Chapter III: A Hidden Room

      Chapter IV: A Stolen Masterpiece

      Chapter V: Tiptoe through the Tulips

      Chapter VI: A Confession

      Chapter VII: A Bike Ride in the Country

      Chapter VIII: A Romantic Interlude

      Chapter IX: The Phony Gallery

      Chapter X: Nancy is not Amused

      Chapter XI: Distracted at the Van Gogh Museum

      Chapter XII: Sophie Incriminates Herself

      Chapter XIII: A Bold Plan

      Chapter XIV: The Fate of the Stolen Masterpiece

      Chapter XV: Nancy is on Television

      Chapter I: A New Pen Pal

      Nancy Keene and her chums were sitting in her French Provincial bedroom talking about what they wanted to do on spring break. Nancy, a blue-eyed, golden-haired girl intently sat at her computer when suddenly, she cried, Yes!! and did a fist pump. Finally, I found them! she exclaimed.

      Who did you find? asked her friend Beth, a thin, bright-eyed girl with frizzy, uncontrollable hair.

      My family! I found my family in Holland!

      What are you talking about? asked Beth’s cousin Hannah, a tom-boyish, athletic girl who looked like she’d feel more at home on a horse or a motorcycle than in Nancy’s French Provincial bedroom.

      Nancy explained, Remember when I told you about my great-grandfather’s family? He came to America the year before the Titanic sank. He left behind his family and never saw them again.

      Beth—ever the romantic—interrupted, "Oh, The Titanic. I loved that movie. Leonardo DiCaprio was so cute in it."

      Hannah said, Beth! Let Nancy finish her story.

      Chastised, Beth looked at Nancy and said, Sorry. Go on.

      It’s okay, Beth. I was just going to say that my great-grandfather went on to have eleven children, and thirty grandchildren. One of them was my grandmother. When he died, she found letters he had written to the old country and she briefly corresponded with someone who spoke English. Then, all communication stopped.

      Hannah and Beth were cousins on the male side of their family. Hannah told Nancy, Our great-grandfather came to America from Belgium. He landed at Ellis Island.

      Nancy politely included Beth in the conversation and asked, Where is your mother’s family from?

      I’m not sure. I tell people I’m Heinz 57. They all laughed.

      Nancy said, I haven’t had time to tell you yet, but I wrote to the people from the Genealogy Roadshow program, and they are going to run my story!

      Beth exclaimed, You’re going to be on TV? Why didn’t you tell us?

      I just found out. Isn’t this exciting?

      I wish I could be on TV, Beth said and pouted.

      Nancy told her, Maybe they’ll let me bring you both. I hope so!

      Beth said, That would be awesome!

      Hannah asked, When are you going to be on?

      In two months.

      You have to wait that long? Beth asked.

      Unfortunately. Meanwhile, I just received an email from someone in Amsterdam who thinks we may be related.

      Beth said, I love Holland. I did a report in sixth grade about that country. Just think: wooden shoes, tulips, lacy curtains, window boxes overflowing with flowers.

      Hannah liked to think she was the intellectual in the group of friends and said, Yes, and Anne Frank’s House. And the Rijksmuseum.

      Nancy added, And the Van Gogh Museum. Churches filled with paintings by the Old Masters. Delft china.

      I wish we could go to Holland, Beth said. Remember when your Dad let us come with you to New Orleans?

      We had such a good time, Hannah chimed in. And you solved the mystery of the ghost in the plantation.

      That was a fun trip, Nancy said.

      Beth added, And last year, your Dad let me come to London with you. We met James Bond and you solved the mystery of the stolen mask.

      Hannah corrected her. You met Daniel Craig—not James Bond.

      And we got to walk the red carpet with him at the Academy Awards, Beth said.

      I wish I’d gone on that trip, Hannah moped.

      Nancy reminded her, But you got a chance to go with Ned to his family’s dude ranch.

      Were you jealous? Hannah asked Nancy. I would never steal your boyfriend.

      I trust both of you, Nancy assured her.

      He’ll always like you best, Nancy, Beth said. You have bewitched him body and soul.

      You’re thinking of Mr. Darcy again, aren’t you? Nancy inquired.

      "I love Pride and Prejudice."

      Hannah teased, We know, Beth. We know!

      Defensively, Beth told her, When’s the last time you read anything?

      "Well, since you ask; I’ve just finished reading We Were Liars."

      I read that, Nancy said. Tragic ending.

      What happened? Beth asked.

      You’ll have to read it and find out, her cousin told her.

      Alright you two, Nancy interrupted. I haven’t told you the whole story of what I just found out."

      Oh, yeah, Beth said. Why the fist pump?

      I’ve been looking at Ancestry.com and found some people with my mother’s last name who live in Amsterdam. And I just got an email from someone who said, Yes. I believe we were related. In fact, his uncle has been collecting family research for years. He went to local churches and looked through baptismal records. He’s traced the family tree back to the 1500s!!

      Wow! Hannah said. Is your great grandfather’s name on their family tree?

      Yes. That’s how my pen pal knew he was related to me.

      What’s his name?

      Dominique.

      Beth really perked up. Dominique—what a romantic name. I love it! What does he look it?

      He’s cute, Nancy answered and brought up his picture on her computer. We’re Facebook friends now.

      He is cute; but you’d better not let Ned find out about this.

      Nancy protested, Dominique and I—we’re family. It wouldn’t be right, what you’re insinuating.

      A forbidden romance…that makes it even more exciting.

      Her cousin heard this and said, Don’t get carried away, Beth.

      Trying to distract them, Nancy said. I’ve been trying to find someone related to me all year.

      Beth

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