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Beverly Gray #23
Beverly Gray's Discovery
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1953
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About the author
Clair Blank
115 books18 followersA year after her high school graduation in 1933, Clair Blank's first four books in the Beverly Gray series had been published -- she was a published author at the age of 18. In 1935, she wrote The Adventure Girls at the K Bar O and was immediately asked by the publisher for two additional stories so that it could be made into a series.
Clair Blank lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from college, became a typist and secretary, and during World War II worked as a volunteer for American Women’s Voluntary Services, a group that drove visiting Army officers around locally. She married George Elmer Moyer, a welder, in 1943 and had two sons.
Series:
* Beverly Gray
* The Adventure Girls
Clair Blank lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from college, became a typist and secretary, and during World War II worked as a volunteer for American Women’s Voluntary Services, a group that drove visiting Army officers around locally. She married George Elmer Moyer, a welder, in 1943 and had two sons.
Series:
* Beverly Gray
* The Adventure Girls
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March 12, 2009
I recently had the pleasure of reading "Beverly Gray's Discovery" by Clair Blank. Why? Honestly, I found it while digging through a tupperware tub filled with old books and was curious. This book was published in 1953 and I thought it would be interesting to see Ms. Blank's take on a mystery. I had enjoyed Nancy Drew as a child and figured this must be of the same genre.
The result? I loved it, and I would highly recommend it. Beverly Gray is a newspaper reporter, who discovers that an antique art dealer is selling chemically - aged copies of famous paintings (painted by less-famous yet talented French artists) to innocent art lovers who are willing to pay any price. It is up to Beverly to collect the evidence and expose the truth before the culprits move on to another city.
Where this book is obviously geared towards juveniles, I did enjoy it as an adult. I found it interesting to read in 2009 Ms. Blank's 1950's descriptions of, for example, freely allowing newly introduced friends to accept rides in a car, etc. in comparison to our more dangerous world today. In fact, I find it just as interesting as reading a book which was written in the 18th century.
J.R. Reardon
author, "Confidential Communications"
The result? I loved it, and I would highly recommend it. Beverly Gray is a newspaper reporter, who discovers that an antique art dealer is selling chemically - aged copies of famous paintings (painted by less-famous yet talented French artists) to innocent art lovers who are willing to pay any price. It is up to Beverly to collect the evidence and expose the truth before the culprits move on to another city.
Where this book is obviously geared towards juveniles, I did enjoy it as an adult. I found it interesting to read in 2009 Ms. Blank's 1950's descriptions of, for example, freely allowing newly introduced friends to accept rides in a car, etc. in comparison to our more dangerous world today. In fact, I find it just as interesting as reading a book which was written in the 18th century.
J.R. Reardon
author, "Confidential Communications"
October 27, 2019
Another good one, read in (practically) one sitting. With modern forensics, the crooks wouldn't have been able to get away with the forgery scheme, but since this was written in the 1950s and set then, that's a minor point.
January 9, 2018
Thank goodness for abandoned house where the nefarious villains can perpetrate their evil deeds.
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