The book opens with Janet receiving news of her father’s sudden death, and Donna traveling with her to Washington DC for the funeral. Rockford, a physician who is also a gourmet cook (she truly Has It All) Donna also has a sixteen-year-old sister, Abbey, who we will get to in a minute.ĭonna and her roomie/BFF Janet Bryson are sophomores at the University of Pennsylvania, and have perfunctory boyfriends (Pete and Dennis), so the reader understands that they haven’t taken Women’s Lib too far. Her wealthy Philadelphia family is headed by her father, a lawyer, and her mother, Dr. The Plot: Donna Rockford picks up where Kim Aldrich left off: slightly older than the average teen girl detective, with more daring and dangerous adventures. In the late 1970s Scholastic published the Donna Rockford mystery series, featuring a college-aged Girl Detective with an explicitly feminist slant, which ran for six volumes (Wikipedia cites 10), and are sort of as shrouded in mystery as the rest of Woolfolk’s career. I didn’t look up any info on author Dorothy Woolfolk until after I had finished this book and was kind of blown away by her CV: a pioneering female editor in the 1940s on for EC, Marvel and DC comics, who takes credit for inventing Kryptonite. Who is Janet’s mother? And why would anyone want to kill them, just because they’re looking for her?
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