Author: Melanie Rehak

Publisher/Date: Harcourt, 2005, first ed, first printing

Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket is in fine condition. 364 pages, measures 6 × 9 ½ inches.

Description: In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Later, tied up by villains, she managed to free herself and bring them to justice—all while wearing a pencil skirt and high heels.

Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the ’60s, and is as beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers. Now Melanie Rehak solves a page-turning literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to American icon?