CBSE Class 9 English Question Paper Set A

CBSE Class 9 English Question Paper Set A. Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions. Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations.

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„The Hardy Boys‟, Mystery Stories are a series of books about the adventures of brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, teenaged detectives who solve one baffling mystery after another. The Hardy Boys were so popular among young boys that in 1930 a similar series was created for girls featuring a sixteen-year-old detective named Nancy Drew. The cover of each volume of 'The Hardy Boys' states that the author of the series is  Franklin W. Dixon; the 'Nancy Drew Mystery Stories' are supposedly written by Carolyn Keene. Over the years, though,  many fans of both series have been surprised to find out that Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene are not real people. If Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene never existed, then who wrote 'The Hardy Boys' and 'Nancy Drew' mysteries?

'The Hardy Boys' and 'The Nancy Drew' books were written through a process called ghostwriting. A ghostwriter writes a book according to a specific formula. While ghostwriters are paid for writing the books, their authorship is not acknowledged, and their names do not appear on the published books. Ghostwriters can write books for children or adults, the content of which is unspecific. Sometimes they work on book series with a lot of individual titles, such as 'The Hardy Boys' and 'The Nancy Drew' series.

The initial idea for both the 'Hardy Boys' and the 'Nancy Drew' series was developed by a man named Edward Stratemeyer, who owned a publishing company that specialized in children‟s books. Stratemeyer noticed the increasing popularity of mysteries among adults, and surmised that children would enjoy reading mysteries about younger detectives with whom they could identify. Stratemeyer first developed each book with an outline describing the plot and setting. Once he completed the outline, Stratemeyer then hired a ghostwriter to convert it into a book of slightly over 200 pages. After the ghostwriter had written a draft of a book, he or she would send it back to Stratemeyer, who would make a list of corrections and mail it back to the ghostwriter. The ghostwriter would revise the book according to Stratemeyer‟s instructions and then return it to him. Once Stratemeyer approved the book, it was ready for publication. Because each series ran for so many years, 'Nancy Drew' and 'The Hardy Boys' both had a number of different ghostwriters producing books; however, the first ghostwriter for each series

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