Review: Good Vintage Amateur Detective Stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
I love vintage mystery stories and wanted to try these. I had grown up reading the Hardy Boys series in the late 50's. From what I remember, these stories are more sophisticated and older teen - young adult suited. Good humor, good rich characters. Penny Parker gets into all kinds of mysteries and troubles which she tackles with her friends and father. Some slapstick too when the sassy and indomitable Penny falls into a river, swims to shore in her good clothes or wades through water or mud in her good shoes as her adventures progress. These stories seem to give a good glimpse of the simpler, more innocent 1930's to 1940's. Cliffhangers where Penny (often with her chum) get trapped by the bad guys and have to engineer their escape. I enjoyed these stories from the author who wrote most of the Nancy Drew stories under a pen name. A lot of fun reading and cheaper than the Nancy Drew or better remembered stories. Good bang for the buck.