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Who wrote the Nancy Drew books?

The Nancy Drew books were written under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, which was used by Edward Stratemeyer and other writers, including his daughter Harriet S. Adams. The Secret of the Old Clock (1930), the first novel in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series, was written by Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson.