Evelyn's Mystery Books

Two Severn House Dana Girls mystery books. Exciting Update: A new friend of mine in a Dana Girls Facebook group sent me this link with information on these books. Apparently six of the Dana Girls books were published by Severn House. Two have picture covers while the other four have dust jackets. Now I have to try to collect the rest of them! I recently blogged about the softcover Sparrow Books editions of the Dana Girls mystery books that were published in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Some of these books, using the same cover art, were published in hardcover format by Severn House, also in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. The Severn House books seem to be very rare, so I can't find much information about them. I don't think that all seventeen of the newer set of Dana Girls books were published in this format. Based on the information written on one of the Severn House books that I own, as well as some pictures I've seen online (mostly old book sale list...

My collection of softcover Dana Girls mystery books. I really enjoy the Dana Girls mystery books. As a child, I collected hardcover editions that I found in used bookshops in the United States. I noticed that the newer books, published in the 1970s, had white covers and also a different numbering system. More on Dana Girls formats can be found here . In total, seventeen books were published in the white 1970s hardcover format. One interesting thing to note is that some titles changed slightly between the older set of books and the newer 1970s versions. "The Mystery of the Stone Tiger" became "Mystery of the Stone Tiger".  Also, "The Mystery of the Bamboo Bird" became "Mystery of the Bamboo Bird". What I didn't realize when I was growing up in America is that the seventeen Dana Girls books that were published in the 1970s were also published as softcover editions in the 1980s. These softcover editions were published by Sparrow B...