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While helping the police find the owner of a mysterious house with a crooked staircase and an unpredictable robot, Nancy Drew, girl detective, also helps capture a swindler.Tags
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I absolutely loved Nancy Drew growing up. This was a series I latched on to for dear life and never let go. Anytime my mom and I would go to antique stores, we'd peruse the Nancy Drews and add them to the collection (oftentimes my mom had to make deals with me on how many I could buy). So, while I don't remember the exact details of each and every one, the entire series was amazing and really fed my love for reading (especially novels full of suspense and mystery). Thank you, Carolyn Keene, for giving us an intelligent female character to fall in love with in Nancy Drew!
Nancy Drew is on a case that involves a strange house, a few swindlers, and quite a few people that are irate about being swindled. In this strange house, Nancy faces a dangerous robot, a trap door, and poisons everywhere. Her sleuthing takes her away from the house to Arizona as well, where she investigates claims for land, and a Native American reservation. This mystery seems to be as crooked as the bannister, but Nancy has a few clues to help her out.
Nancy tries to find a missing man wanted by the police and has to search his strange house despite an unpredictable robot.
2 Stars
scary and suspending
"Det var verkligen ett underligt hus!
När kitty sköt upp köksdörren blev hon stående som förstenad.
Där var roboten igen!
Ett surrande ljud hördes och i nästa ögonblick kände Kitty hur två hårda plåtarmar slöts om henne och kramade hårt, hårt …"
När kitty sköt upp köksdörren blev hon stående som förstenad.
Där var roboten igen!
Ett surrande ljud hördes och i nästa ögonblick kände Kitty hur två hårda plåtarmar slöts om henne och kramade hårt, hårt …"
Feb 16, 2021Swedish
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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 Crooked Banister
- Original publication date
- 1971
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew; Carson Drew; Rawley Banister; Mrs. Melody
- Important places
- Arizona, USA
- First words
- "Do you have any plans for the next few days, Nancy?" Carson Drew asked his daughter as she walked into their living room.
- Disambiguation notice
- ISBN 0448195496 is for The Secret of Mirror Bay.
WorldCat has ISBN 0448195496 for both books.
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