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My Nancy Drew Collection. Part 5

This post is about the series. What started in 1930 as a girls’ series by Edward Stratemeyer became a phenomenon. It was printed by Grosset & Dunlap up until #56, at which point a massive court case ensued and it was decided that G&D could keep printing those 56 books, but Simon & Schuster would [...]

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My Nancy Drew Collection. Part 4

I LOVE THE NANCY DREW FILES!!!   I found these books in the very early 90s and DEVOURED them. They were more adult and mature and I LOVED all of the clothes the girls wore. I loved them so much, I started making a list of their clothes, and then my clothes, and then started [...]

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My Nancy Drew Collection. Part 3

And now we come to the Girl Detective and Diaries series. Diaries is basically reincarnated from GD. They dumbed Nancy down in GD and have continued it into Diaries.  You can see it all again on my Pinterest board (LINK HERE) Girl Detective has boxed sets, super mysteries, and even another six book set with [...]

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My Nancy Drew Collection. Part 2

And now we move on to short lived series that barely lasted a few years, to graphic novels that are ongoing with new Dynamite comics. This is all of them but once again, you can follow my Pinterest board (LINK HERE) if you want to see the full collection.   Be A Detective was a [...]

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My Nancy Drew Collection. Part 1

We’re starting this ten day Nancy Drew blogfest with the younger generations. First came the Nancy Drew Notebooks which went up to #69 and then stopped. I have a few extra Scholastic books and two UK editions. It was followed by the Nancy Drew Clue Crew which only got up to #40, and was then [...]

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The Hardy Boys. And all of the times Frank Hardy hooked up with Nancy Drew even though she was dating Ned Nickerson!

Well, they only kinda sorta hooked up, but, from vague memory as I haven’t read the books in decades, I do believe they shared a kiss or two. My Hardy Boys collection is larger than my Dana Girls and Trixie collections, but nowhere near as large as my Nancy collection. There are still lots of [...]

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The Dana Girls. It’s Almost As If They Were Nancy Drew’s Cousins…

And they kind of are, in a way. Both are published originally by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Danas are also mentioned a few times in Nancy books due to a crossover effect when the books were updated. Kind of like when tv shows crossover. As with the Trixies, there are several print runs from the [...]

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Trixie Belden, Schoolgirl Shamus!

My next sister up used to read the hardcovers we all called “the uglies” due to their cellophane covers. But did I get to read them? NO! Thanks for nothing, bitch. And then she gave them to an op shop. Anyway, I’ve managed to acquire a largish collection of my own and will slowly add [...]

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Susan Sand, Award Winning Author Sleuth

The reason for this blogfest of book series is purely because I needed to re-catalogue it all. I lost what pictures I did have on my old computer and hadn’t taken any more since. And that’s about ten years. So over December I pulled it all out, took photos, and repacked it all. So here [...]

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Castle, Murder She Wrote, and Crimes of Fashion

I’m kicking off book month here at JDS, which is going ALL month due to there being so many public holidays as well as the school holidays which I always take off for writing holidays anyways so I won’t be here, but will be on socials to post these posts, with the last of the [...]

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