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The Scarlet Slipper Mystery

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  Hey everyone.  Here's my next offering for the blog: The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, Nancy's 32nd case, which was penned in 1954 by Charles S. Strong whom I couldn't find out all that much about.  Everything I found for him led back to a Wikipedia page, and according to that, he was a writer and adventurer and also penned a Hardy Boys story: The Hooded Hawk Mystery.  Please note, I do try to find out all I can about the different people who wrote under the Carolyn Keene name, but it's not always possible and what I find, take with a grain of salt because I don't have a way to confirm or deny what I come across. Characters : Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne (with guest appearances by Carson Drew, Nick Nickerson, and Hannah Gruen) Premise : Nancy works to discover who is trying to frighten a pair of siblings (Henri and Helene Fontaine) and whether or not it has to do with their parents' resistance work in their homeland of Centrovia.  So interestingly enough,...