lot of mysterious incidents! Energetic young women kept a steady pace that tired me just reading though I'm sure it was more for sake of keeping attention.
And the handsome royals needing assistance to find their missing family heirlooms another draw,
I'm sure my own love of travel was influenced by that of mcs of similar series,
DanaGirls series
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where in the world Switzerland I uncovered the Dana girls at a garage sale, never before having heard of their existence, It absolutely blew my mind that books from the same authors as Nancy Drew and the same company as the Hardy Boys had been absolutely lost to us, It blew my mind that though they were made of the same things, the Dana girls were somehow forgotten in supersleuth fame,
The book was pleasant, nothing spectacular, and it won't surpass Nancy Drew any time soon or ever, but one might consider me biased there, Nancy is the ULTIMATE girl detective in my book but what really struck me was the transience of literature, of books, The way thousands of copies of a series like this one can be printed, and then fifty years later, not a soul has heard of them, Reading things like Nancy Drew or Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes, one tends to form the incorrect idea that literature doesn't really get lost, that it simply gets passed on through generations.
But that isn't true. Sure, some of the books make it, but how many don't How many, like the Dana Girls mysteries, are left behind And why Another fun mystery with the Dana Girls.
. . nothing spectacular, but nice descriptions of the Swiss Alps,
Lots of description of the Swiss Alps and villages, . . a good travelog "sampler" and a mystery with nothing too scary, I didn't remember reading on this latest reading
I probably would have rated this story itselfbut I've been to Switzerland and it was like a fond memory to read this book.
The Danas meet a real prince who tells them that his family's heirlooms were hidden by faithful servants in Switzerland during the war years, They have looked for them for years and no trace could be found, The Dana Girls soon remedy that situation, Throw in an annoying family and a thief, not to mention a rather shady cousin of the Prince and his brother and you have a pretty good story set in a great background.
such a lovely book! fans of Nancy Drew will love it! The Dana girls are in Switzerland with their aunt and a couple of friends, They do some touring and make new friends, While they are out there they find some missing heirlooms, At the same time they inform the police about some thieves and smugglers they discovered, A rather harmless mystery that children might enjoy, Considering its time and the fact it was one of these churned out cheap paperbacks it wasn't too bad better than the last Nancy Drew I read, The best part is the zero tolerance for sexual harassment even mild and the way the girls were very active, The worst part was the classism and general predictability of a vapid storyline and some passive aggressive misogynistic comments eg the way the aunt was portrayed as having no needs and few ideas.
I won't go out of my way to read any more than these but it must be admitted I loved them when I was about, I loved this series of books that I read back in junior high, They are from the same syndicate that wrote the Nancy Drew books and the Hardy Boys, but I much preferred the Dana Girls, Loving my trip down memory lane, re reading my favourite series from my teenage years, good
This is the first and only book I read where the protagonists get run over by a wheel of cheese, I enjoyed this book light reading mystery. I never read the Dana Girls as a youth and glad my girls can enjoy the series now too, I enjoyed visiting a bit of Switzerland with the Danas Really enjoying rereading these books from my youth! While vacationing in Europe, the Dana sisters agree to help a former Austrian prince locate his family's long lost heirlooms, a search that takes them into the dangerous snowcovered Swiss Alps.
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