George Edward Stanley's Unpublished Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books.

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Bigfootman

Found this on the Hardy Boys Digests blog:
https://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/DG1231.html
"Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Skeleton's Letter/Hardy Boys and the Skeleton's Letter" by George Edward Stanley (unpublished)"
""Nancy Drew Notebooks: The Whispering Water Fountain" by George Edward Stanley (unpublished)"

""The Hardy Boys: Living with Blue People/Desert Danger/Sahara Oil" by George Edward Stanley"
""Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers: Sahara Oil!" by Franklin W. Dixon (George E. Stanley); Simon & Schuster (unpublished)" (Same book as the above?)

The Website also reveals he wrote a bunch of the Clue Crew and Secret Files books.

Two other odd bits of info:
"Nancy Drew #75 by Carolyn Keene (George Stanley)"
"Nancy Drew #12 by Carolyn Keene (George Stanley)"
Files books maybe?

 

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It looks like the University of Southern Mississippi also has a collection of Andrew Svenson's work. https://specialcollections.usm.edu/repositories/4/resources/446

I'll add to my list of StratSyn documents in the NYPL that I will never get to, although I will try if I am in town. https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/stratemeyer.pdf
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Bigfootman

I've made a blog post about the unpublished books, which you can read here:
http://bigfootmanshardyboysandnancydrew.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-mystery-of-unpublished-george.html
I'm pretty sure that he ghostwrote "Fatal Ransom" and "A Talent for Murder", as those are seemingly the only books that "Nancy Drew #12 and "Nancy Drew #75" could be. The blog post also contains a possible explanation of who the Blue People in the title of "Living with Blue People" are.

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Quote from: Bigfootman on May 27, 2021, 02:18:53 PM
I've made a blog post about the unpublished books, which you can read here:
http://bigfootmanshardyboysandnancydrew.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-mystery-of-unpublished-george.html
I'm pretty sure that he ghostwrote "Fatal Ransom" and "A Talent for Murder", as those are seemingly the only books that "Nancy Drew #12 and "Nancy Drew #75" could be. The blog post also contains a possible explanation of who the Blue People in the title of "Living with Blue People" are.

If you look at the University's page, "Nancy Drew #12" has the title 'Stop The Clock' (2005).  There was a 'Stop The Clock' published in the Girl Detective series.

Now then I didn't see anything on the web page that said "Nancy Drew 75".  I saw a lot of mentions of "Nancy Drew 15 Framed". 
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Bigfootman

Quote from: tomswift2002 on May 27, 2021, 04:55:48 PM
Now then I didn't see anything on the web page that said "Nancy Drew 75"


" Nancy Drew #75 by Carolyn Keene (George Stanley)

  Manuscript
  Typescripts
  Notes
  Synopsis
  Drafts of first chapter"

The 75 could be a typo on the site's part addmitably, in fact, I think it is a typo, edited my blog post.

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QuoteThe blog post also contains a possible explanation of who the Blue People in the title of "Living with Blue People" are.
The Smurfs! :) 8)
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Quote from: Bigfootman on May 26, 2021, 11:21:30 PM

""The Hardy Boys: Living with Blue People/Desert Danger/Sahara Oil" by George Edward Stanley"
""Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers: Sahara Oil!" by Franklin W. Dixon (George E. Stanley); Simon & Schuster (unpublished)" (Same book as the above?)




I think this could be a trilogy. I remember the stories in the Undercover series were split into trilogies of sorts.

Bigfootman

Quote from: Raven on May 27, 2021, 07:47:20 PM
I think this could be a trilogy. I remember the stories in the Undercover series were split into trilogies of sorts.
That is very possible. The UBs were in their trilogy phase before George Edward Stanley passed away in 2011. I had assumed that the three names were just different possible titles for the book.

Edit: Working on part 2 of the blog article tomorrow to fix my earlier mistake

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