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While helping a friend with a fund-raiser in Brooklyn, Nancy is drawn into a mystery. A musician who was going to perform at the fund-raiser is kidnapped, and the kidnapping is tied to some memorabilia that was going to be auctioned for the benefit.Tags
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A pretty good ND book, as far as plots go... I certainly didn't see the twist at the end coming, and didn't suspect the actual culprit until the last few chapters. However, since the title actually has the words "ruby gazelle" in it, I was kind of surprised that Nancy didn't pick up sooner on the link between the kidnapping and the carousel animals. I mean, it was so obvious! It seems like Nancy wasn't thinking as hard as she usually does to find the connections.
A pretty good ND book, as far as plots go... I certainly didn't see the twist at the end coming, and didn't suspect the actual culprit until the last few chapters. However, since the title actually has the words "ruby gazelle" in it, I was kind of surprised that Nancy didn't pick up sooner on the link between the kidnapping and the carousel animals. I mean, it was so obvious! It seems like Nancy wasn't thinking as hard as she usually does to find the connections.
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Carolyn Keene was the pseudonym that Mildred Wirt Benson and Walter Karig used to write Nancy Drew books. The idea of Nancy Drew came from Edward Stratemeyer in 1929. He also had other series, that included the Hardy Boys, but he died in 1930 before the Nancy Drew series became famous. His daughters, Harriet and Edna, inherited his company and show more maintained Nancy Drew having Mildred Wirt Benson, the original Carolyn Keene, as the principal ghostwriter. During the Depression, they asked Benson to take a pay cut and she refused, which is when Karig wrote the books. Karig's Nancy Drew books were Nancy's Mysterious Letter, The Sign of the Twisted Candles, and Password to Larkspur Lane. He was fired from writing more books because of his refusal to honor the request that he keep his work as Carolyn Keene a secret. He allowed the Library of Congress to learn of his authorship and his name appeared on their catalog cards. Afterwards, they rehired Benson and she wrote until her last Nancy Drew book (#30) was written in 1953, Clue of the Velvet Mask. Harriet and Edna Stratemeyer also contributed to the Nancy Drew series. Edna wrote plot outlines for several of the early books and Harriet, who claimed to be the sole author, had actually outlined and edited nearly all the volumes written by Benson. The Stratemeyer Syndicate had begun to make its writers sign contracts that prohibited them from claiming any credit for their works, but Benson never denied her writing books for the series. After Harriet's death in 1982, Simon and Schuster became the owners of the Stratemeyer Syndicate properties and in 1994, publicly recognized Benson for her work at a Nancy Drew conference at her alma mater, the University of Iowa. Now, Nancy Drew has several ghostwriters and artists that have contributed to her more recent incarnations. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Riddle of the Ruby Gazelle
- Original title
- The riddle of the ruby gazelle
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew; Zoe Krieger
- Important places
- Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA; New York, New York, USA
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- Reviews
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- 5 — English, Estonian, French, Lithuanian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
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