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The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew Mystery #11)

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Title:The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew Mystery #11)
Author:
Benson, Mildred A. Wirt  Writing under the pseudonym: Keene, Carolyn   
(3 of 27 for author by title)
The Clue of the Tapping Heels (Nancy Drew Mystery #16)
The Clue in the Diary [Revised Edition] (Nancy Drew Mystery [Revised] #7)
Illustrator:
Tandy, Russell H.   
(2 of 14 for author by title)
The Clue of the Tapping Heels (Nancy Drew Mystery #16)
The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (Nancy Drew Mystery #22)
Published:   1934
Publisher:Grosset & Dunlap
Tags:amateur detective, detective, fiction, mystery, female detectives, Nancy Drew (Fictional character)
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The book starts with Nancy Drew witnessing a couple named Kitty and Johnny Blair adopt two baby twins, Jay and Janet, from the Selkirk Foundling’s Home. The babies were mysteriously found in a boat along the river by a nurse at the Home. The Blairs, who are famous actors, decide to adopt the babies as a publicity stunt, as they hope to raise the children as actors, which will help their own careers. The Blairs are cruel to the children, and Nancy sets off to find their real mother and take them away from the Blairs, although the adoption papers have already been signed. [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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