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Originally Posted by BookCat
Wikipedia have an extensive article about the ghostwriting. Apparently, they all were from the beginning. Later, as zip says, they were rewritten in accordance with changing culture. Not sure if the earlier versions even exist.
Maybe someone knows?
(How would Nancy solve this?)
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Yes, all of those books were written as work for hire projects. There was no one author who would have held the copyright. I learned that there was no "Carolyn Keene" (purported author of the Nancy Drew series) back when I was still in elementary school (started reading the Nancy Drew series in about 1956, and still have my entire collection .... which only went to about 32 books into the series before I sort of grew out of it).
Yep, found out about the truth of Carolyn Keene about the same time as I discovered the down and dirty on Santa and the Easter Bunny. Those were rough years.