I have 27 books out of 39, including the oh-so-rare Mystery of the Galloping Ghost, the very last one. I got it for Christmas and it became one of my favorite books.
They are sort of similar to Nancy and the Hardy Boys, in the way that they solve mysteries. Trixie is four or five years younger then Nancy, and solves mysteries with her "club" the Bob-whites of the Glen. This club includes her best friend Honey, who is a millionaire's daughter, Honey's adopted older brother Jim, bad kid turned good Dan Mangan, Trixie's older brothers Brian and Mart, and Diana Lynch, who is the slightly ditzy beauty. Trixie does not have a boyfriend, although she has a crush on Jim. She would never admit it though!
I prefer Trixie to both Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, because Trixie is REAL. She seems like she could be any girl, the way she has to do chores and babysit her little brother. She makes mistakes and doesn't always crack the case in the first three chapters. People laugh when she says she's a detective and she's gotten more than a few scoldings from the police!
The first six books were written by Julie Campbell under her own name. Then, when she gave up all rights to the series, several different authors took a swing at the series. These authors all used the name "Kathyrn Kenny". So in a sense, I suppose they were ghostwritten, although they were not originally intended to be that way.
There you go! A basic overview of the Trixie Belden series and my thoughts on it!
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