The Clue in the Jewel Box (Nancy Drew, Book 20)
."..if I were sitting by the pool again, in search of distraction, I would pick the old Stratemeyer formula over the new one. Stratemeyer understood, in the end, that children want their heroes to have an air of mystery. A young reader isn't trying to discover the ways in which she's ordinary; she's trying to discover just how to banish the shadows so that the afternoon lasts a little longer." -- Meghan O'Rourke "The New Yorker" (11/08/2004)