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A Ghost in the Closet: A Nancy Clue and Hardly Boys Mystery
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Mabel Maney
With their fearless crime-fighting, good manners, and manly fashion sense, the Hardly boys are the pride of Feyport, Illinois. In" A Ghost in the Closet," dark-haired, muscular Frank and his lovable kid brother Joe return from a gay trip to Europe to find that their parents -- world-famous detective Fennel P. Hardly and his wife, Mrs. Hardly -- have been kidnappe...more
Paperback, 250 pages
Published
November 30th 2005
by Cleis Press
(first published 1995)
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I picked this up at a used book store and couldn't stop laughing at the first few pages, so I had to buy it. This is a hilarious parody of the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys mysteries, which I loved as a kid. If you didn't inhale those as obsessively as I did, this would probably be less funny, but I loved it and would highly recommend it for other former Nancy Drew fans.
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I love this queer spoof of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. I got a little tired of the outfit descriptions, but loved the stereotypical characters and somewhat predictable plot. This was a good read aloud with my partner.
Cindy Breeding
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Mabel Maney turns her keen wit and snappy humor to the Hardy Boys. The brothers are oh-so-gay, and the characters they encounter on their search for truth in an aeronautical operation are a great romp. Enjoy!
I adore so many things about this book. The style and language is "spot-on" to the Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew series. This book is hysterical.
Fun fun fun! If you ever read serial fiction as a kid, you'll enjoy the Mabel Maney books.
fun, silly, sexy, exciting, and utterly immersible. I love the whole series!
Erin Mcsherry
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highly entertaining
Surprising enjoyable queer version of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, in which everyone in 1950s America is gay, Carson Drew is a child abusor, the Hardy Boys' dad is transgender, and Nancy has to work very hard to win the heart of her girlgriend. Despite these radical changes to the premise, the author stays true to the Carolyn Keene style, while adding lots of sex to the plot.
I picked up this book because I read a review somewhere that it was a good take off on the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys mysteries. I absolutely loved Nancy Drew as a pre-teen. While it was true to the original in many ways, it wasn't as funny as I expected. My reaction was a big "ehh". I found it a little precious and overly impressed with its own cleverness.
A parody of Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys with a HUGE gay twist. Funny and light for those into the old kids books and bitchy one-liners!
This is the third and last of this particular series. Still as fresh as ever. So glad she quit at her peak.
My favorite of the Mabel Maney books. Clever and funny.
pure comedic genius. truly.
BEST EVER.
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