Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her

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In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she managed to free herself and bring them to justice - all while wearing a pencil skirt and high heels. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers...

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ISBN:

9780156030564
015603056X

Edition:

First Harvest edition

Description:

xviii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:

"A Harvest book."
Originally published: 2005
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-354) and index

Contents:

The Stratemeyer clan
Mildred
Alma Mater
Hawkeye days
Nell Cody, Helen Hale, Diana Dare
Nancy Drew Land
Syndicate for sale
An unfortunate break; or, the Cleveland writer comes into her own
Motherhood and Nancy Drew
"They are Nancy"
The kids are hep
Nancy in the age of Aquarius
Becoming the girl detective
Will the real Carolyn Keene please stand up?

Control Number:

3260927

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