- Juvenile fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Women detectives, Kidnapping
While trying to recover a set of stolen parchment paintings, Nancy Drew becomes involved in tracking a kidnapper and extortionist.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Leslie McFarlane
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin USA, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101074695
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“"It's perfectly beautiful!" Nancy exclaimed.”
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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