Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy

Wendelin Van Draanen

Jan 2001 · Live Oak Media · Narrated by Tara Sands

About this audiobook

Hooray for Hollywood? The saucy sleuth Sammy Keyes discovers otherwise in this spirited mystery. When Sammy’s mother dumped her with Grams to go to Hollywood and become a star, Sammy dealt with it. But when she discovers that Lady Lana has changed her name, dyed her hair, and shaved ten years off her age, Sammy hops a bus to Hollywood and finds her mom in deeper trouble than she expected. One of Lana’s biggest competitor is found dead in the room next door. Is Sammy’s mother the next victim...or the prime suspect?

About the author

Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped.