More sleuthing and adventure from the original name in young women's detective fiction. Nancy teams up with River Heights detective Sam Fanelli on a kidnapping case, when third-grader Jeremy Wright, a movie star's son, disappears. The investigation gets stymied when one of their top suspects is found murdered.
Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon are the pseudonyms under which many ghostwriters penned the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, respectively. Both series were created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm, in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet, and syndicate writer Mildred Wirt Benson were the two people primarily responsible for bringing the iconic character of Nancy Drew to life in the minds and hearts of millions of readers around the world.
