mobi file on your mobile device, please use. Adams is credited with keeping the Syndicate afloat through the Great Depression, and with revising the two most popular series, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, in the 1950s and 1960s, removing stereotypes and streamlining plots and characters. Edna ran the daily business operations, while Adams dealt with publishers and wrote Edna became inactive when she married in 1942, and Adams took over the business. With her sister, Edna, Adams took over control of the Stratemeyer Syndicate after her father Edward Stratemeyer's death in 1930.
Adams also oversaw other ghostwriters who wrote for these and many other series as a part of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, and rewrote many of the novels to update them starting in the late 1950s.
She wrote the plot outlines for many books in the Nancy Drew series, using characters invented by her father, Edward Stratemeyer. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (Decem– March 27, 1982) was an American juvenile book packager, children's novelist, and publisher who was responsible for some 200 books over her literary career. Startling discoveries in an old castle and in the ruins of a prehistoric fortress, on a rugged mountain slope and in a secluded glen, lead Nancy closer to finding the solutions to both mysteries. Undaunted by the vicious threats, the attractive young detective-with her father and her two close friends-goes to visit her great-grandmother at an imposing estate in the Scottish Highlands, and to solve the mystery of a missing family heirloom.Īnd there is another mystery to be solved: the fate of flocks of stolen sheep.īaffling clues challenge Nancy's powers of deduction: a note written in the ancient Gaelic language, a deserted houseboat on Loch Lomond, a sinister red-bearded stranger in Edinburgh, eerie whistling noises in the Highlands. Warnings not to go to Scotland can't stop Nancy Drew from setting out on a thrill-packed mystery adventure.
The Clue of the Dancing Puppet (Nancy Drew Mystery #39)Īmateur detective, detective, fiction, mystery, female detectives, Nancy Drew (Fictional character) The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew Mystery #2) The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes (Nancy Drew Mystery #41)Īdams, Harriet Stratemeyer Writing under the pseudonym: Keene, Carolyn
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