About the Authors Holly Hughes is a freelance writer and editor who lives with her husband and three children on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She has worked as the editor of the Nancy Drew Mystery series from Pocket Books, as a contributing editor for Scholastic's Literary Cavalcade magazine, and as the executive editor of Fodor's Travel Guides. She was the series editor for Frommer's Irreverent Guides and Frommer's By Night guides for Frommer's. Holly was supported in fact-checking this issue by Meredith Horton. Mercer Warriner lives in SoHo with her husband and two sons as an editor and writer.

She has worked as an editor and writer on several Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, as well as acquiring and editing romances and mysteries as a senior editor at Berkley Publishing. She's also worked at William Morrow and Pocket Books, among other places.