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A trip to Wisconsin's Lake Minosha is supposed to be a relaxing vacation for Nancy, George and Bess--without any mysteries. But moments after they arrive a young woman, scratched and bruised, falls across their cabin's threshold...Tags
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One of the more exciting reads. Really enjoyed it right from the end of Chapter 1 when Nancy opens the cabin door she, Bess and George are vacationing in and a girl named Toby Jackson falls across the threshold in a faint. The girl has amnesia and remember nothing (aside from her name) about how she got there and why. So a new mystery is afoot!
I rushed through the book fairly quickly as I had to find out how Toby got amnesia and why she was on the run. Also really enjoy the beautiful aqua cover and the book title screams mystery!
I rushed through the book fairly quickly as I had to find out how Toby got amnesia and why she was on the run. Also really enjoy the beautiful aqua cover and the book title screams mystery!
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Another awesome Nancy Drew book! This one has Nancy, Bess, and George taking a relaxing vacation in a cabin by a lake. Of course, as usual, this vacation ends up being anything but relaxing. In a very unexpected, sudden way, they are thrown head-first into a very strange mystery centering around a girl named Toby who has amnesia. One thing I really liked about this book was that, while Nancy was determined to help Toby, for most of the book we really had no idea who Toby was. There was a good chance that she was a criminal, and yet Nancy still followed her instincts and helped Toby instead of turning her over to the police. Throughout most of the book, we have no idea what is actually going on... why people are show more after Toby, if Toby is good or bad, what it is that Toby may or may not have stole... it's not just a mystery, it's a very vague mystery that may turn some people off by the confusion and vagueness. But I completely loved it. show less
Another awesome Nancy Drew book! This one has Nancy, Bess, and George taking a relaxing vacation in a cabin by a lake. Of course, as usual, this vacation ends up being anything but relaxing. In a very unexpected, sudden way, they are thrown head-first into a very strange mystery centering around a girl named Toby who has amnesia. One thing I really liked about this book was that, while Nancy was determined to help Toby, for most of the book we really had no idea who Toby was. There was a good chance that she was a criminal, and yet Nancy still followed her instincts and helped Toby instead of turning her over to the police. Throughout most of the book, we have no idea what is actually going on... why people are show more after Toby, if Toby is good or bad, what it is that Toby may or may not have stole... it's not just a mystery, it's a very vague mystery that may turn some people off by the confusion and vagueness. But I completely loved it. show less
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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 Girl Who Couldn't Remember
- Original publication date
- 1989
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- Nancy Drew
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