“Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.”

—  Carolyn Keene , book The Message in the Hollow Oak

Source: The Message in the Hollow Oak

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house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate 1905–2002

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