The Whispering Statue (Nancy Drew) book review

Yes, I'm still reading my way through the Nancy Drew books. I gave it 4 stars only because some of the story was a bit of a stretch realistically even for the time it was written. Nancy's father asks her and her friends Bess and George to stay at a yacht club and solve two mysteries. The one they are hired to solve, what is happening to Mrs. Merriman's books. She isn't receiving her commission and one just because Nancy is nosy - the disappearance of a statue from the yacht club. Nancy's boyfriend Ned makes an appearance in time to save her and win a sailboat race. We do learn that Nancy is in art school, but when she attends is anyone's guess. This has bothered me for a long time. She is apparently out of high school, but she doesn't have a real job nor is she in college and neither are her friends. Is she just waiting for Ned to finish at Emerson so they can get married? Does she charge for her sleuthing? It always seems she does it out of the goodness of her heart. This is a fun, quick read which will take you back to the days before cell phones, when Nancy had to use her wits to find out who the bad guys are.