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Phoebe Daring
''Phoebe Daring: A Story for Young Folk'' is a mystery novel for juvenile readers, written by L. Frank Baum, the author of the Oz books. Published in 1912, it was a sequel to the previous year's ''The Daring Twins'', and the second and final installment in a proposed series of similar books.〔Katharine M. Rogers, ''L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography'', New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002; pp. 186, 189, 280.〕 ''Phoebe Daring'' was illustrated by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens, the artist who illustrated Baum's ''The Flying Girl'', ''Annabel'', and ''The Flying Girl and Her Chum'' in the same period. Hungry Tiger Press announced that they would reprint the book as ''Unjustly Accused!'' in the back of their 2006 reprint of the first book as ''The Secret of the Lost Fortune''.
Like ''The Daring Twins'', ''Phoebe Daring'' involves two orphaned twins, Philip and Phoebe Daring; as its title indicates, the sister takes the primary role in the second book, which delivers a plot about a good man unjustly suspected of a crime – very much as the first one did. This similarity, and lack of originality, might be the best explanation for the book's limited popular success and the termination of the Daring Twins series after two books.
It is clear that Baum had hopes of more Daring Twins novels, involving the younger of the five Daring siblings and eventually their children as well.〔Rogers, p. 280 n. 46.〕 Evidence suggests that he wrote at least a third book in the series; in the papers left after Baum's death in 1919, the file that contained the manuscript for his last Oz book, ''Glinda of Oz'', was labelled ''Phoebe Daring, Conspirator''. Baum's correspondence with his publisher, Reilly & Britton, mentions yet another book, titled either ''Phil Daring's Experiment'' or ''The Daring Twins' Experiment''. Yet nothing of these other Daring books is known to have survived.
The girl-detective concept〔Bobbie Ann Mason, ''The Girl Sleuth'', Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1995.〕 had a persistent hold on Baum's imagination. He returned to it in a more successful series, the ''Mary Louise'' novels that he began in 1916.
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