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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (36973)	5/8/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: Justin C	Respond to of 108807

<< Now for a revelation: the author of the Hardy Boys series, Franklin W. Dixon, was a WOMAN!!!! She was the same woman who wrote the Nancy Drew mysteries. Talk about deceptions! >> As a child I read all the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. I noticed that both series had similarities -- same publisher, same number of chapters and same terminology like "chums" and "roadster". I concluded that Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene were a team, possibly a married couple. So it was an interesting revelation when I read in a 1968 newspaper interview that Harriet S. Adams was both 'Carolyn Keene' and 'Franklin W. Dixon'. I clipped the article and stashed it away with more important items such as the front page of a Dallas Morning News headlined KENNEDY SLAIN ON DALLAS STREET. A couple of quotes from Ms. Adams in that 1968 article . . . On violence: "Up until now we have had no gunplay in any of our series, except when it's necessary for belief. For instance, Mr. Hardy, being a detective, can carry a gun and use it. But not any of the young people. We really feel here that the mysteries can be solved by the young people's wits, rather than gunplay." On her influence on her readers: "Well, look at yourself. I'd say you turned out all right. I think you learned the good old maxims. You know that right triumphs eventually. And you probably thought that you would like to go out and do something good."