Booked for Murder - Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

Many mystery fans got their first taste of the genre as young girls with the Nancy Drew.  In 1930, Edward Stratemeyer started the series that would endure for decades.  Rehak follows the story behind the amateur sleuth with her creator Stratemeyer, and his daughter and a journalist who continued the series after his death under the name Carolyn Keene.  The evolution of the Nancy Drew character is told alongside the story of women’s lib.