Penny Parker starred in a series of 17 books written by Mildred A.
Wirt Benson and published from 1939 through 1947.
Penny was a high school sleuth who also occasionally moonlighted as a reporter for her father's newspaper.
Benson favored Penny Parker over all the other books she wrote, including Nancy Drew.
Her obituary quoted her as saying, I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is, Mrs.
Benson said in 1993.
Wildside Press Clue of the silken ladder, paperback/mildred a. wirt
