In the usual tradition of the Nancy Drew books, timelines mean nothing. It’s now winter, after jumping around from mysteries taking place in fall, spring, summer, back to fall, and then to […]
Sometimes life just thrusts a mystery upon you. Take the case of Nancy Drew and The Clue of the Black Keys. The eighteen-year-old detective is minding her own business walking through the […]
It would seem that in the quest for a formula for the Nancy Drew series that worked, the Strathmeyer Syndicate seemed to have finally found a groove with several books that work […]
Reading the Nancy Drew series with my daughter has proved to be an enlightening experience. We agree on a few things about the series. The suspension of time is a bit aggravating. […]
I just don’t understand how some people who are so stupid manage to get so much money. I know a trend in a lot of the Nancy Drew books is to have […]
Maybe it’s me, but I don’t get the fascination with gypsies. At times I have read books and movies that paint these people in a not-so-favorable light. The prejudice against these groups […]
Looking at the cover of the most recent Nancy Drew book my daughter and I read, my first impression was that the cover art made Nancy look like she was drugged out. […]
I’ve always heard that Nancy Drew was a role model for girls. Of course, this was at a time when girls were expected to do little more than look for a suitable […]
The original stories in the Nancy Drew series of books were shortened and updated throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The results were often positive, with the newer version becoming more relevant and […]
The Nancy Drew series was originally penned in the 1930s and 1940s for the most part and most were rewritten in the 1960s and 1970s. These rewrites usually consisted of tightening up […]
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