Don't Tread on Me: a Novel of the Exploits, Military and Gallant, of Commodore John Paul Jones

by Walter Karig

Jacket art by Louis James Nolan. The story of John Paul Jones and his military exploits. Capt. Horace V. Bird, U.S.N. assisted.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Walter Karig (1898-1956) was a Captain in the U. S. Navy and wrote a number of books referring to World War II. He was also an author of television scripts for war-related programs like "Victory At Sea." For the Syndicate, he wrote volumes in the Perry Pierce series (2-4), Doris Force series (3-4), and Nancy Drew series (8-10). He earned a bad reputation with the Syndicate by writing to the Library of Congress and requesting authorial credit for the three Nancy Drew volumes he wrote. The Library staff assumed that he wrote all of the books. Both the fact that he revealed himself as "Carolyn Keene" and the mistake on the part of the library catalogers were a source of tremendous consternation for the Syndicate. At one point, Harriet S. Adams wrote to Mildred Wirt (the author of the first 25 volumes in the Nancy Drew series, except for the three written by Karig) and said that the Syndicate would rue the day that they ever hired Karig, and that if anyone could claim to be "Carolyn Keene" it would be Wirt.