Shock Waves
by Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon
Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super Mysteries (3), Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys Super Mystery series — ND & HB Super Mystery 3)
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Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are among the invited guests to Padre Island on the Gulf Coast. A dead body and a squad of resort sharks keep them busy.Tags
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Shock Waves is one of the earliest Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys crossover stories, but the stock structures of the books are already settled: Joe acts impulsively but cares deeply underneath his flippant exterior; Nancy and Frank are more cautious, both about their cases and about their attraction to each other; together, all three rush about being the crackerjack teen detectives they are. There is a lot of action in this story -- car crashes and dead bodies and red herrings, oh my! -- and it's a jolly fun, solid entry in the series.
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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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Franklin W. Dixon Franklin W. Dixon is actually a pseudonym for any number of ghostwriters who have had the distinction of writing stories for the Hardy Boys series. The series was originally created by Edward Stratmeyer in 1926, the same mastermind of the Nancy Drew detective series, Tom Swift, the Rover Boys and other characters. While show more Stratmeyer created the outlines for the original series, it was Canadian writer Leslie McFarlane who breathed life to the stories and created the persona Franklin W. Dixon. McFarlane wrote for the series for over twenty years and is credited with success of the early collection of stories. As the series became more popular, it was pared down, the format changed and new ghostwriters added their own flavor to the stories. Part of the draw of the Hardy Boys is that as the authors changed, so to did the times and the story lines. While there is no one true author of the series, each ghostwriter can be given credit for enhancing the life of this series and never unveiling that there really is no Franklin W. Dixon. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys Super Mystery series — ND & HB Super Mystery 3)
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- Canonical title
- Shock Waves
- Original publication date
- 1989
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- Members
- 172
- Popularity
- 189,515
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.38)
- Languages
- English, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
