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Called "America's queen of romantic suspense" and the "Grandmaster" by reviewers, Phyllis A. Whitney, with over forty novels for young adults to her credit, is a master crafter of mysteries, romances, and intrigues about young women whose attempts to unlock secrets and solve puzzles often put them at the threshold of danger. A popular writer and commercial success--at one time she had over forty million copies of her books in print--Whitney also has garnered critical recognition for her artistry in the genre. She has received the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for two of her young-adult mysteries, and award-nominations for three others.
Whitney's incredible plot twists, foreign settings, complex family dynamics, sinister villains, and spooky overtones echo the eighteenth-century Gothic motif, to which Whitney adds twentieth-century themes, issues, and characters. Critics esteem her works for their realistic, likable, and spunky protagonists, who unlike many traditional heroines of romantic and Gothic fiction, are not idealized nor sentimentalized, but rather are burdened with shortcomings that they must attempt to work out for themselves.
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