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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I see you and I did the same deep research 
I was curious enough to take a trip to Canada and snag a copy of The Secret of the Old Clock in what should be its original version (she looks a bit like a flapper on the cover).
For kids detective series, I'd lean more on Encyclopedia Brown and the Bellairs books, partly because I find the syndicate ownership with pen names and editing of The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew distasteful (though honestly, the editing bothers me less than the other things). |
This has been interesting though; after duplicating your 'research' I'm sure that what I read as a kid were probably the 1959 revisions. Then I thought maybe I was thinking of the Hardy Boys and their changes, but it looks like those were also last revised in 1959. Apparently my memory is playing tricks on me, I could have sworn I'd heard they were updated in the early 2000s or so.
I liked Encyclopedia Brown as well, but I really got into the Three Investigators series, which led me into Alfred Hitchcock movies.
