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4 unusual facts about Nancy Drew Mystery Stories


Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

In 1979, after a court battle between the Stratemeyer Syndicate and Grosset & Dunlap, the original publishers (in hardback) of the first fifty-six Nancy Drew titles, publication rights to new stories were granted to Simon & Schuster.

The volumes matched Grosset & Dunlap's other Doubleday Book Club publication, Young Library.

The titles were initially presented in set cover format referred to as the "Arch" design, with most covers drawn by Ruth Sanderson.

Thus, the original fifty-six American Grosset & Dunlap-published titles become the first fifty UK titles, with #57-78 being published as #51-72.



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