Melanie Rehak
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Melanie Rehak
- 2006 Edgar-Critical/Biography winner
- 2006 Macavity-Nonfiction winner
- 2005 Agatha–Nonfiction winner
- 2006 Anthony-Critical nominee
- Score: 36.56
A plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. 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 girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Now, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery:
Who created Nancy…
