Cherry Ames, mountaineer nurse
Julie Tatham
Hardcover
(Grosset & Dunlap, March 15, 1951)
The series stars a job-hopping, mystery-solving nurse in the Nancy Drew mold, named Cherry Ames. Cherry (short for Charity) hails from Hilton, Illinois (based on Wells' hometown of Danville, Illinois), and was steered into nursing by Dr. Joseph Fortune, an old family friend.