Troubled Waters
by Carolyn Keene
Nancy Drew: Girl Detective (23), Nancy Drew (Girl Detective series — Girl Detective 23)
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Nancy Drew and her friends investigate a murder case, that involves some members of the university basketball team.Tags
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Recent flooding of the river has left many homeless. Luckily Helping Homes has plans to convert an abandoned foundry to apartments, and Nancy, Bess, and George have volunteered to help. In fact, so has the University of Lowell basketball team, including local star forward J.C. Valdez. It seems not everyone is excited about the project, though. A vandal seems intent on wreaking havoc at the site, as well as leaving threatening messages for J.C. Luckily Nancy is around to investigate!
Personally I think in terms of plot this is one of my favorites so far, but the solution was obvious to me since none of the other options were plausible. Or maybe I'm just a better detective than Nancy!
Personally I think in terms of plot this is one of my favorites so far, but the solution was obvious to me since none of the other options were plausible. Or maybe I'm just a better detective than Nancy!
A good book, but sort of predictable... one of the few Nancy Drew books where I actually guessed the criminal long before Nancy did.
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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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- Troubled Waters
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- Fiction and Literature
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- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
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- PZ7 .K23 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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