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Originally Posted by alansplace
I found a used hardback copy of the 1941 edition of The Mystery At The Moss-Covered Mansion (Nancy Drew #18) by Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson). Boy-oh-boy was I ever correct in saying that the one I read a few weeks ago "seemed to be almost all an updated/rewritten story". I really enjoyed reading this one!
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were rewritten, of course - both the "Hardy Boys" and "Nancy Drew" series were re-written in the 1950, to remove the rather unpleasant racial stereotyping of the originals, and also (in many cases) to make the books shorter and easier to read. In some cases the re-write retained the original plot, while in others only the title was retained and the book itself was a completely different story.