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Maxie. Maxie was created by Elsie Bell Gardner and appeared in the seven-book “Maxie” series, beginning with Maxie, an Adorable Girl; or, Her Adventures in the British West Indies (1932) and concluding with Maxie and the Golden Bird; or, The Mysterious Council of Seven (1939).

Maxie is a Nancy Drew-style girl sleuth who solves mysteries and has adventures around the world, in the British West Indies, in diamond mines in Venezuela, looking for her parents in Australia, helping the Royalists in Spain during the Civil War, and finding lost Incan temples in Peru.

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