Mystery Box

By McAlpine, Gordon

Publishers Summary:
Were Franklin Dixon and Carolyn Keene indeed the mysterious authors of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books? Or just made-up names? In Mystery Box Gordon McAlpine masterfully invents the world as it might have been if Frank and Carol had met among the glittering expatriates in 1920s Paris. Frank is a private detective, hunting not only for missing heiresses and stolen jewels but also for answers to his painful past. Carolyn, meanwhile, works for a fashion magazine, yearning to know both how to write for real and how to forgive a world full of betrayal and disillusionment. With the friendship, wit, and wisdom of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein, Frank and Carolyn find each other — and the truths contained in their soon-to-be-written fictions. Mystery Box guides readers through layers on layers of mystery, history, and romance. Finally teenagers can enjoy a favorite fictional world reimagined and reinvented.

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ISBN
978-0-81262-680-3
Publisher
Cricket Books


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on December 1, 2003

Gr 9-Up What if Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon, the pseudonymous authors of the famous Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, were real people? That is the premise of this oddly contrived story, which is a combination of mystery, romance, and history. Initially set in 1918, and then moving to the 1920s, it takes both characters from their homes in the United States to Paris. Frank is led to France while tracking his missing army pilot brother, Joe. Carolyn travels there as a new high school gradua...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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