Girl Sleuth

The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” ( The Seattle Times ).   An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year   The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and 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 cultur