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Nancy takes on a baffling case at the River Heights zoo. Four wild cats have vanished, and Owen Harris, a handsome grad student working on the World of Africa exhibit, is chief suspect. He appears guilty, but has he been framed? At the same time, a great perfume formula is missing, and Nancy is soon hot on the scent. Nancy must tread carefully as she finds danger in the blacktop jungle while searching for the valuable cats and the missing formula. When Nancy walks straight into a trap, she show more must rely on her wits to save her skin! show lessTags
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A decent story. Probably will remember this one more than some others in the Casefiles series due to the nature of the plot involving stolen civets. Nancy is on the case at the local zoo to uncover the caper. And as happens on occasion, she gets into a tiff with one of her chums, George, since the man George is in love with happens to be a potential suspect in this feline mystery.
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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
- Scent of Danger
- Original publication date
- 1990
- First words
- "Oh, that smell!" Nancy Drew said, wrinkling her nose as she walked into the front hall of her friend George Fayne's house.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"You have no taste in perfume!"
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- English
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- ISBNs
- 4
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