She was twenty-four when she wrote "The Secret of the Old Clock" and other early Nancy Drew books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"Nobody can't wind that old clock."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

It's four o'clock in the morning and the 68-year-old fisherman is dragging a plastic trunk of fish carcasses across the dock toward his boat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20