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She wrote the first twenty-three books in the series, and those are my favorites.Īnother interesting tidbit about the early Nancy Drew books, which were originally published in the 1930s, is that they were rewritten and republished in the 1970s. All the Nancy Drew books were actually ghostwritten, and my favorite of the ghostwriters was Mildred A. The Whispering Statue, by Carolyn Keene, is book #14 in the original series.
They said to me many times, “Rob, you’re in a reading rut!” Yes, that’s what good mysteries do to you, and I still love getting caught in a mystery reading rut! When I was young, I read all the Nancy Drew mysteries (at least the ones that were available at that time)! My brothers and I would go to the library every week and I would come out with a pile of books, mostly Nancy Drew mysteries.
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