Thank you for the splendid overview of the background of the Nancy Drew franchise.  I still remember the summer we visited with my grandparents.  Their “finished attic”, which had two bedrooms where we stayed, had little cupboards under the steep slope of the roof, and one of those was filled with all the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books extant in the 70s (and not a few Bobbsey Twins books, too).  I *devoured* those books that summer!  Do I remember a single plot, or villain?  Heck, no.  But that wasn’t what mattered!  Now we’ve bought both series in bulk thanks to Costco :^) , and my oldest boy, about my age when first I read them, has read more than half of the Hardy Boys books.  I plan to take my family to the Nancy Drew movie this month.

Comment by Michael Hill from Thornton, CO — June 15, 2007 @ 1:35 pm