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Strangers on a train Nancy Drew Diaries series, book 2

Dear diary... The good news: Bess, George, and I are on a train bound for Denali National Park, gazing at majestic Mount McKinley as we speed along. It's truly awesome! The bad news: Someone -- a creepy passenger or a disgruntled employee? -- is still causing major trouble on the Arctic Star cr...

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Main Author: Keene, Carolyn.
Other Authors: Marie, Jorjeana.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: Carol Stream : Oasis Audio, 2015.
Edition: Unabridged.
Series: Nancy Drew Diaries.
Subjects:
Drew, Nancy > (Fictitious character) > Juvenile fiction.
Skagway (Alaska) > Juvenile fiction.
Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska) > Juvenile fiction.
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Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary: Dear diary... The good news: Bess, George, and I are on a train bound for Denali National Park, gazing at majestic Mount McKinley as we speed along. It's truly awesome! The bad news: Someone -- a creepy passenger or a disgruntled employee? -- is still causing major trouble on the Arctic Star cruise ship, and now that we're sightseeing on land, the danger has followed. Whoever it is has got even me in their sights -- but I've been working undercover, so I have no idea how anyone discovered I'm a detective. With every step I take, I'm looking over my shoulder. The forty-ninth state sure is proving to be treacherous territory.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file)
Playing Time: 03::1:9:
Format: Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 93328 KB).
ISBN: 9781621884989
Author Notes: Carolyn Keene was the pseudonym that Mildred Wirt Benson and Walter Karig used to write Nancy Drew books. The idea of Nancy Drew came from Edward Stratemeyer in 1929. He also had other series, that included the Hardy Boys, but he died in 1930 before the Nancy Drew series became famous. His daughters, Harriet and Edna, inherited his company and maintained Nancy Drew having Mildred Wirt Benson, the original Carolyn Keene, as the principal ghostwriter. During the Depression, they asked Benson to take a pay cut and she refused, which is when Karig wrote the books.

Karig's Nancy Drew books were Nancy's Mysterious Letter, The Sign of the Twisted Candles, and Password to Larkspur Lane. He was fired from writing more books because of his refusal to honor the request that he keep his work as Carolyn Keene a secret. He allowed the Library of Congress to learn of his authorship and his name appeared on their catalog cards. Afterwards, they rehired Benson and she wrote until her last Nancy Drew book (#30) was written in 1953, Clue of the Velvet Mask.

Harriet and Edna Stratemeyer also contributed to the Nancy Drew series. Edna wrote plot outlines for several of the early books and Harriet, who claimed to be the sole author, had actually outlined and edited nearly all the volumes written by Benson. The Stratemeyer Syndicate had begun to make its writers sign contracts that prohibited them from claiming any credit for their works, but Benson never denied her writing books for the series.

After Harriet's death in 1982, Simon and Schuster became the owners of the Stratemeyer Syndicate properties and in 1994, publicly recognized Benson for her work at a Nancy Drew conference at her alma mater, the University of Iowa. Now, Nancy Drew has several ghostwriters and artists that have contributed to her more recent incarnations.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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