A few weeks ago, I was talking to my brother about Nancy Drew. I knew my sister and I had read her books, but I didn't remember if they were too girly for Jim. No, he told me he read the books and joked about "a ruse to get the chums out of the house."
A few weeks later, he sent me the book Girl Sleuth by Melanie Rehak. It focuses on the two women who were most essential to creating the iconic character Nancy Drew: Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Both were college-educated career women making their way in the business world.
The book did a good job in setting up the historic backdrop of Millicent's and Harriet's lives and their competing visions of Nancy Drew.
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