Yeah, the Dana Girls were also a Stratemeyer creation. I
can't believe how many series those people churned out, and
how many I read.
http://www.series-books.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate
Karin
At 12:05 PM 07/06/2008, Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
>Karin wrote:
>
>> Kevin, I hope you don't mean to imply that Nancy
Drew and the
>> Bobbsey Twins are in the same detective
league.
>
>Hmmm.... since they were aimed at very different age
groups, that's
>not that surprising. But they both came out of the
Stratemeyer League
>(I mean "Syndicate"), so I wonder how much difference
in quality there
>actually was.
>
>I remember my six-year old self thinking THE
DOODLEBUG MYSTERY was
>pretty exciting stuff.
>
>> Perhaps you are thinking of the Dana Girls,
rather than the Bobbsey
>> Twins. ;)
>
>Were the Dana Girls part of the Stratemeyer factory?
If so, some of
>the same people may have written them. (I hope by now
everyone knows
>Franklin W, Dixon, Carolyn Keene, Laura Lee hope et
al didn't actually
>exist.)
>
>Franklin W. Dixon, for example, noted for the Hardy's
celebration of
>American smalltown values, was originally mostly
Leslie MacFarlane, a
>Canadian pulp writer from the sudbury area whose son
Brian went on to
>become a Hockey Night in Canada commentator. Leslie
joked he never
>knew what the "W" stood for.
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