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The Secret Pact

(1941)
(The sixth book in the Penny Parker Mystery series)
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THE SECRET PACT is #6 in the Penny Parker Series by Mildred Wirt Benson.

Penny wants to write a story about a strange tattoo she sees on a sailor, but neither her father's nor her school's newspaper agree to the idea. Penny impulsively decides to start a new newspaper in the abandoned Morning Press building and enlists the help of a few close friends. She soon finds herself in over her head and courting trouble after she runs the story about the tattooed man in her new paper.

Mildred A. Wirt Benson (1905-2002) was a prolific author of books for young readers. A trained journalist, Benson is best known as a ghostwriter for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Under the house pen-name Carolyn Keene, Benson completed 23 of the first 25 Nancy Drew mysteries and wrote a number of others until 1984. Benson also wrote her own mystery series, Penny Parker, from the 1930s to the 1950s.


Genre: Young Adult Fiction

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