As a kid, I read all sorts of vintage children’s mysteries: Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Three Investigators, and a slew of ones nobody knows… Kay Tracy, The Dana Girls, Vickie Barr, Judy Bolton, Biff Brewster, Connie Blair, Brains Benton… it was a collection. I grew to hate the Kay Tracy series because the author always put her into the most horrible situations: once she was almost burned alive by a pyromaniac.
Looking back on those types of stories, I feel as though they’re a bad idea. Kids might get the idea of trying to solve crimes and end up in trouble or dead. The fictional situations are unrealistic and exaggerated. The more I think about it as an adult, the more alarming it seems.
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