The Mystery of the Ivory Charm (1974)

Front cover of my copy of the 1974 edition.

Last month, after I finished reading the original 1936 edition of the Nancy Drew mystery book, The Mystery of the Ivory Charm, I realized I also had the 1974 version. So I quickly (for me) read the "modern" version.

Endpaper

The book was published in 1974 by Grosset & Dunlap (New York). It has XX (20) chapters (compared to 25 in the 1936 edition) spread out over 179 pages (compared with 216 in the 1936 edition). It has new cover art by Rudy Nappi (see above) and five simple illustrations (by an uncredited artist; see below for a comparison between an illustration for the same scene from the 1974 edition [left] and the 1936 edition [right]).

 

The basic story line is the same in both editions, however, I think that the illustrations (see above) are symbolic of the differences between the 1936 and the 1974 edition. The 1974 edition was easy to read and went quickly, almost without substance. Whereas, the 1936 version had more weight; meatier. One might say that the 1974 version is a diet version of the full bodied 1936 edition.

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm is #13 in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series.

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Links:

http://ricketwrite.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-mystery-of-ivory-charm.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Ivory_Charmhttps://americanillustration.org/project/rudy-nappi/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew_Mystery_Stories
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Written Sunday 17 March 2019

1936 edition