- Mystery and detective stories, Juvenile fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Children's stories
When a gang that uses parties as a cover for robberies victimizes a masquerade party Nancy is attending, the teen-age detective switches identity with her girl friend to solve the case.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 177
- Publisher
- Collins, Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9782012007765
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“"You look lovely, Nancy, and very mysterious," said Hannah Gruen, housekeeper for the Drew family, as she smiled fondly at the slender, titian-haired girl.”
Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 – September 6, 1977) was a Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series, using the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon, and the Nancy Drew series under Carolyn Keene.
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