Meg Duncan

The series was developed by editor Dorothy Haas,[1] and first printed under Western Publishing's hardback-imprint formats.

Margaret Ashley Duncan, a girl of unspecified age, solves mysteries with the help of her best friend, Kerry Carmody.

Margaret Ashley Duncan is Meg to most people, though Uncle Hal calls her Maggie-me-love.

[5] Harold Ashley is Meg's Uncle Hal, her late mother's handsome younger brother.

She lives on a farm near the Duncan home with her parents, five brothers, and one sister, and has a pony named Chappie.

A 1981 volume of Contemporary Authors [8] lists only one Meg book among Gladys Baker Bond's writings.

It is not known who wrote the other five books, but several minor discrepancies hint that at least two other authors were involved: In The Disappearing Diamonds, written by Mrs.

In The Mystery of the Black-Magic Cave, Hidden Springs is a small city instead of a village, and Meg is said to have olive-tinted skin.

The Ghost of Hidden Springs is the only book where the Carmody children call their paternal parent Father, and not Sir.

In addition to these discrepancies, William Larson, a former Whitman editor, stated that if more than one book in a series was published in a year, they were almost always written by different people.

Illustrations by Cliff Schule have more shading and detail; some are a two-page spread in full color.

Golden Press Meg paperbacks measure 73⁄8 × 47⁄8 inches, with an average length of 138 pages.