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The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery #1)

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Title:The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery #1)
Author:
Benson, Mildred A. Wirt  Writing under the pseudonym: Keene, Carolyn   
(23 of 27 for author by title)
The Shadow on the Door (Kay Tracey Mysteries #4)
The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery #6)
Illustrator:
Tandy, Russell H.   
(12 of 14 for author by title)
The Sign of the Twisted Candles (Nancy Drew Mystery #9)
The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery #6)
Published:   1930
Publisher:Grosset & Dunlap
Tags:amateur detective, detective, fiction, mystery, female detectives, Nancy Drew (Fictional character)
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In this, the first book of the series, Nancy Drew is introduced to us, and searches for a missing will. Struggling relatives have no claim, only the evil already-rich ones are heirs by the only known will.

This is the original edition, it was rewritten in 1959. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Benson, Mildred A. Wirt

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The most famous writer who worked on the Girls’ Books Series was Mildred A. Wirt Benson. She was born Mildred Augustine in Ladora, Iowa, in 1905. She met Edward Stratemeyer in New York in 1925 and began working for his syndicate as a writer who fleshed out his plot outlines for juvenile mystery stories. In 1929, she began to write Stratemeyer’s Nancy Drew Mystery Stories for a reported S125.00 per book. In 1950, three years after her husband Asa Wirt died, she married George Benson, the editor of The Toledo Times, from which point her professional career was focused on newspaper writing.

Mrs. Benson reportedly gained her first series book writing experience with Volumes 23 to 30 of the Ruth Fielding Series. She wrote twenty-three of the Nancy Drew books and several Dana Girls and Kay Tracey books, all for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Under her own name, she wrote many other series, such as the Brownie Scouts. Penny Nichols, Penny Parker, and the most unusual to carry the by-line of a woman writer, the six Dan Carter Cub Scouts books for boys.

—All About Collecting Girls’ Series Books. John Axe, 2002.

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