Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew is the heroine detective of a popular mystery series for girls. The series was created in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

Series history

The series was ghostwritten in the early years primarily by Mildred Wirt Benson. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, who succeeded her father Edward as the head of the Syndicate, contributed a number of volumes and oversaw the substantial revisions begun in the fifties.

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Mildred Wirt Benson - Harriet Stratemeyer Adams

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Over 200 million books have been sold worldwide. Many people collect the series, which has gone through several formats over the years. The books were reprinted in the 1970s and 1980s, and in the early 1990s a new series was created for Simon & Schuster under the epithet The Nancy Drew Files, starting with Secrets Can Kill (1991). The 'original' series was also extended, and in more recent years, the extra series Nancy Drew on Campus and Nancy Drew Notebooks were added to the tales about the titian-haired sleuth.

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Simon & Schuster - The Nancy Drew Files

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Nancy Drew also appeared with The Hardy Boys in the 36 volume Supermystery series.

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