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The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is "a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing" (The Seattle Times).

An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year

The plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As ...

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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her