Missing Millie Benson

<div> <p>Growing up in Ladora Iowa Mildred Millie Benson had ample time to develop her imagination and sense of adventure. While still a journalism graduate student at the University of Iowa Millie began writing for the Stratemeyer Syndicate which published the phenomenally popular Hardy Boys series among others. Soon Millie was tapped for a new series starring amateur sleuth Nancy Drew a young independent woman not unlike Millie herself. Under the pen name Carolyn Keene Millie wrote the first book <i>The Secret of the Old Clock</i> and twenty-two other Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. In all Millie wrote more than a hundred novels for young people.</p> <p>Millie was also a journalist for the <i>Toledo Times</i> and the <i>Toledo Blade</i>. At sixty-two she obtained her pilot's license. Follow the clues throughout <i>Missing Millie</i> to discover the story of this ghostwriter journalist and adventurer.</p> </div>