Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths

Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master’s of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works. Melanie E. Gregg is an associate professor of French at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Her research is focused primarily on French women writers of the Early Modern period and the twentieth century.

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• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction: The Mystery of the Moll DickMICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      The Nancy Drew Mythtery StoriesJAMES D. KEELINE      Originator, Writer, Editor, Hack: Carolyn Keene and Changing Definitions of AuthorshipLINDA K. KARELL      Alice Roy, Détective: Nancy Drew in French TranslationMELANIE E. GREGG      Race and Xenophobia in the Nancy Drew Novels: “What kind of society...?”LEONA W. FISHER      “They blinded her with science”: Science Fiction and Technology in Nancy DrewMICHAEL G. CORNELIUS      Linda Carlton: Flying Sleuth/Sleuthing FlierFRED ERISMAN      The Girl Sleuths of Melody LaneH. ALAN PICKRELL      Measuring Up to the Task: Cherry Ames as Nurse and SleuthANITA G. GORMAN and LESLIE ROBERTSON MATEER      Puzzles, Paternity, and Privilege: The Mysterious Function(s) of the Family in Trixie BeldenSTEVEN J. ZANI      Not Nancy Drew but Not Clueless: Embodying the Teen Girl Sleuth in the Twenty-first CenturyMARLA HARRIS      Hermione Granger as Girl SleuthGLENNA ANDRADE      Teen Sleuth ManifestoMELISSA FAVARA and ALLISON SCHUETTE-HOFFMAN      About the Contributors 199Index203