- Adventure and adventurers, Children's stories, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction
After finding a clue in a trunk she's received from her father, girl detective Nancy Drew investigates a mystery.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- HarperCollins New Zealand, Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780685911235
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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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