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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective #31
Perfect Cover
My friends and I are headed to the Big Apple!
George, Bess, and I continue our investigation of the Miss Pretty Face Beauty Pageant in New York City, where the next round of competition is being held. When I get there, Pretty Face Cosmetics seems creepier than ever!
Suspicious security men, animal rights protesters, and a mysterious scientist make this the craziest case I've ever investigated. And when someone suddenly goes missing, I realize it just might be the most dangerous!
George, Bess, and I continue our investigation of the Miss Pretty Face Beauty Pageant in New York City, where the next round of competition is being held. When I get there, Pretty Face Cosmetics seems creepier than ever!
Suspicious security men, animal rights protesters, and a mysterious scientist make this the craziest case I've ever investigated. And when someone suddenly goes missing, I realize it just might be the most dangerous!
160 pages, Paperback
First published July 29, 2008
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About the author
Carolyn Keene
1,003 books3,868 followersCarolyn Keene is a writer pen name that was used by many different people- both men and women- over the years. The company that was the creator of the Nancy Drew series, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, hired a variety of writers. For Nancy Drew, the writers used the pseudonym Carolyn Keene to assure anonymity of the creator.
Edna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer. Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. It was Mildred Benson (aka: Mildred A. Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. It was her characterization that helped make Nancy an instant hit. The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reins of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys. In 1959, Harriet, along with several writers, began a 25-year project to revise the earlier Carolyn Keene novels. The Nancy Drew books were condensed, racial stereotypes were removed, and the language was updated. In a few cases, outdated plots were completely rewritten.
Other writers of Nancy Drew volumes include Harriet herself, she wrote most of the series after Mildred quit writing for the Syndicate and in 1959 began a revision of the first 34 texts. The role of the writer of "Carolyn Keene" passed temporarily to Walter Karig who wrote three novels during the Great Depression. Also contributing to Nancy Drew's prolific existence were Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., and Margaret Scherf.
Edna and Harriet Stratemeyer inherited the company from their father Edward Stratemeyer. Edna contributed 10 plot outlines before passing the reins to her sister Harriet. It was Mildred Benson (aka: Mildred A. Wirt), who breathed such a feisty spirit into Nancy's character. Mildred wrote 23 of the original 30 Nancy Drew Mystery Stories®, including the first three. It was her characterization that helped make Nancy an instant hit. The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reins of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys. In 1959, Harriet, along with several writers, began a 25-year project to revise the earlier Carolyn Keene novels. The Nancy Drew books were condensed, racial stereotypes were removed, and the language was updated. In a few cases, outdated plots were completely rewritten.
Other writers of Nancy Drew volumes include Harriet herself, she wrote most of the series after Mildred quit writing for the Syndicate and in 1959 began a revision of the first 34 texts. The role of the writer of "Carolyn Keene" passed temporarily to Walter Karig who wrote three novels during the Great Depression. Also contributing to Nancy Drew's prolific existence were Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Nancy Axelrod, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., and Margaret Scherf.
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February 13, 2019
The excitement continues in this second part of the trilogy; the ending makes me wish I already had the final volume on hand.
February 9, 2017
Nancy Drew trilogy!! I couldn't get enough of it
Perfect Cover is the second book in the Perfect Mystery Trilogy and man it was so much fun. Our favourite detective Nancy went from investigating why a former pageant queen is being dethroned to uncovering a scandal behind the organiser of the Miss Pretty Face pageant queen competition.
Two completely different but indirectly related case come together in a trilogy wow it totally satisfies my hunger. I think it do slightly even better than the usual nancy drew stand-alones. So much drama and mystery and impossible to put down
Perfect Cover is the second book in the Perfect Mystery Trilogy and man it was so much fun. Our favourite detective Nancy went from investigating why a former pageant queen is being dethroned to uncovering a scandal behind the organiser of the Miss Pretty Face pageant queen competition.
Two completely different but indirectly related case come together in a trilogy wow it totally satisfies my hunger. I think it do slightly even better than the usual nancy drew stand-alones. So much drama and mystery and impossible to put down
March 6, 2023
it's great book for mystery lovers. It keeps a feel of suspense thought the story, but at the end it does not end but u have to get the next part of the book and complete this trilogy series. this series perfect mystery is related to beauty pageants and stuff. do read if u like mystery and suspense, and most of all you will start loving NANCY DREW.
September 16, 2024
I liked this mystery! The pageant as a background was much less than the first one in the trilogy. I did like that Nancy was investigating some of the same people, and that the company itself was under investigation this time. I also liked the missing person aspect, and I thought the mystery was well written.
September 30, 2020
This was a great book! I really enjoyed it and I couldn't stop reading it!
February 28, 2021
I liked this one a lot!
August 11, 2022
Omg I just loved it. Even though I don't have the first book of the trilogy, this one is amazing and I really want to know how the cliffhanger will continue. Awesome story and amazing suspense!!!!
January 13, 2016
This pageant has had some real ups and downs! The whole plot line kind of reminds me of the Miss Congeniality movies, but I suppose less intense and more suitable for children, of course. In this book Nancy Drew must find out where Anna, who works with the cosmetic company Pretty Face, has disappeared to after not turning up to a meeting where Anna had some important things to tell Nancy.
Once again Nancy leaves no stone unturned in uncovering her latest mystery.
Once again Nancy leaves no stone unturned in uncovering her latest mystery.
November 13, 2012
i loved this book! it is all about a girl that is trying to solve a mystery and she goes through a series of steps and so they get dangerous! my favorite character is nancy drew because she is the one that is trying to solve the mystery and the thing that i also liked was that she was participating in a beauty contest! i recommend it to my classmates
July 7, 2010
This book was really good! It stopped without the mystery being solved so I can't wait for the next one!
November 19, 2010
AWSOME!
July 26, 2012
(Contemporary realistic-mystery) in notebook
July 31, 2015
cooool! nice sequel
October 23, 2011
it was great
July 30, 2014
Really good book I did enjoy reading this
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