Invitation to Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
This is another article that I wrote for I&F, which is now called Fellowship and Fairydust . And this article is, as the title says, about Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys books. Photo by Nicole Honeywill on Unsplash In 1926, the dearly loved Hardy Boys books were created by Edward Stratemeyer. The year 1930 saw the creation of Nancy Drew, the greatly loved girl detective by Stratemeyer as well. Both series were ghostwritten under the names Franklin W. Dixon and Caroline Keene. Most of The Hardy Boys series was actually written by a gentleman named Leslie McFarlane, and the Nancy Drew series was written by a lady named Mildred Benson. When Edward Stratemeyer first brought up the idea of the Nancy Drew series to the Grosset and Dunlap publishing company, who were publishing The Hardy Boys series at the time, he suggested that they call the series Stella Strong stories , Diana Drew stories , Diana Dare stories , Nan Nelson stories , Nan Drew stories or H...