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Mary Louise

Mary Louise

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Number of Chapters: 27

Length: 4 hours and 12 minutes

Language: English

The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym,then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third.

The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectives— a concept Baum had experimented with earlier, in The Daring Twins (1911) and Phoebe Daring (1912). The Bluebird series began with Mary Louise, originally written as a tribute to Baum's favorite sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. Baum's publisher, Reilly & Britton, rejected that manuscript, apparently judging the heroine too independent. Baum wrote a new version of the book; the original manuscript is lost.

The title character is Mary Louise Burrows. In the first books of the series, she is a fifteen-year-old girl with unusual maturity (though the other girls in her boarding school find her somewhat priggish). She is suddenly confronted with the fact that her beloved grandfather is suspected of no less a crime than treason against the United States. With the help of old and new friends of Mary Louise … the truth is uncovered. The novel features a federal agent named John O'Gorman; he is assisted by his daughter Josie, a young woman he has himself trained to function as an investigator. (The Josie O'Gorman character, despite preceding Nancy Drew by more than a decade, is much less traditionally feminine.) (Summary from Wikipedia)

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00 - Publisher's Note (Sibella Denton)
01 - Just an Argument (Sibella Denton)
02 - Gran'pa Jim (Sibella Denton)
03 - A Surprise (Sibella Denton)
04 - Shifting Sands (Sibella Denton)
05 - Official Investigation (Sibella Denton)
06 - Under a Cloud (Sibella Denton)
07 - The Escape (Sibella Denton)
08 - A Friendly Foe (Sibella Denton)
09 - Officer O'Gorman (Sibella Denton)
10 - Rather Queer Indeed (Sibella Denton)
11 - Mary Louise Meets Irene (Sibella Denton)
12 - A Cheerful Comrade (Sibella Denton)
13 - Bub Succumbs to Force (Sibella Denton)
14 - A Call from Agatha Lord (Sibella Denton)
15 - Bub's Hobby (Sibella Denton)
16 - The Stolen Book (Sibella Denton)
17 - The Hired Girl (Sibella Denton)
18 - Mary Louise Grows Suspicious (Sibella Denton)
19 - An Artful Confession (Sibella Denton)
20 - Diamond Cut Diamond (Sibella Denton)
21 - Bad News (Sibella Denton)
22 - The Folks at Bigbee's (Sibella Denton)
23 - A Kiss from Josie (Sibella Denton)
24 - Facing the Truth (Sibella Denton)
25 - Simple Justice (Sibella Denton)
26 - The Letter (Sibella Denton)
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