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<p><i>The Girl Sleuth</i> is a book for anyone who fondly recalls her late-night adventures inside a bedspread cave with a flashlight, a handful of snitched cookies, and a savvy heroine who has just two chapters left in which to decode the message, find the jewels, unmask the impostor, and then catch the next express to the big city.</p><p>In this long-out-of-print work, which was first published in 1975, Bobbie Ann Mason examines the girl detective in her various guises through a combination of childhood reminiscences and insights as a fiction writer and observer of American popular culture. Mason ranges in her coverage from the Bobbsey Twins to the glamorous career-girl detectives Vicki Barr, Cherry Ames, and Beverly Gray to her own adolescent favorites--Judy Bolton, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden, a farm girl like herself. Mason's personal recollections of a rural youth spent longing for mysteries to solve represent a quintessential American girlhood experience.</p><p>Mason reveals Nancy Drew (as cool as Mata Hari and as sweet as Betty Crocker) to be a paradoxical figure: on the one hand a model of independence and courage; on the other, a lady, eternally feminine and firmly devo

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Author

Mason, Bobbie Ann

Publisher

Athens: University of Georgia Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820317397

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.6 / 5 (80 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14