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Nancy's assignment is to find a missing rock star, Bent Fender's lead guitarist, Barton Novak, who disappeared suddenly after telling Nancy he had something important to tell her.Tags
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I don't remember whether or not I read this second book in the Nancy Drew Files back in the day. Either way, the cover still drew me as it would have back then, with its red violet tones, the cityscape in the background, and Nancy in the foreground in trendy '80s fashion, appearing as if she's either going to burst into suspenseful action or bust a dance move.
A dance move wouldn't be unfitting, given this vintage YA novel's rock music theme.
No explosions or thrilling car chases in this particular mystery. But there is a little hand-to-hand combat...some of it from music industry characters who seem to have a degree of luck on their side as they physically go up against criminal thugs. Plus, the use of the common "tie up the victims you show more plan to kill in a few minutes instead of just killing them right now" plot device helps things out.
As for Nancy, I wouldn't say she makes her best showing in this mystery. She seems fairly excitable and easy to frustrate/confound as she tries to make headway here.
Nevertheless, my nostalgic self still got a kick out of this quick and easy entertainment. I plan to snack on more of this incredibly long series soon. show less
A dance move wouldn't be unfitting, given this vintage YA novel's rock music theme.
No explosions or thrilling car chases in this particular mystery. But there is a little hand-to-hand combat...some of it from music industry characters who seem to have a degree of luck on their side as they physically go up against criminal thugs. Plus, the use of the common "tie up the victims you show more plan to kill in a few minutes instead of just killing them right now" plot device helps things out.
As for Nancy, I wouldn't say she makes her best showing in this mystery. She seems fairly excitable and easy to frustrate/confound as she tries to make headway here.
Nevertheless, my nostalgic self still got a kick out of this quick and easy entertainment. I plan to snack on more of this incredibly long series soon. 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
- Deadly Intent
- Original publication date
- 1986
- People/Characters
- Nancy Drew; Barton Novak (lead singer, Bent Fender)
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
- LCC
- PZ7 .K23 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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