45 Facts About Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew is a fictional character appearing in several mystery book series, movies, and a TV show as a teenage amateur sleuth.

Nancy Drew franchise has been adapted into other forms of media with varied success.

Feminist literary critics have analyzed the character's enduring appeal, arguing variously that Nancy Drew is a mythic hero, an expression of wish fulfillment, or an embodiment of contradictory ideas about femininity.

Nancy Drew's is originally depicted as a 16-year-old high school graduate but is later rewritten as an 18-year-old graduate and detective in later editions.

Nancy Drew is often assisted in solving mysteries by her two closest friends: cousins Bess Marvin and George Fayne.

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Nancy Drew is occasionally joined by her boyfriend Ned Nickerson, a student at Emerson College.

Nancy Drew's is as cool as Mata Hari and as sweet as Betty Crocker.

Nancy Drew's was a skilled driver who, at sixteen, 'flashed into the garage with a skill born of long practice.

Nancy Drew brilliantly played tennis and golf and rode like a cowboy.

Nancy Drew is able to travel freely about the United States, thanks in part to her car, which is a blue roadster in the original series and a blue convertible in the later books.

Nevertheless, some find no significant difference among the permutations of Nancy Drew, finding Nancy to be simply a good role model for girls.

The covers went through several changes in the early years: leaving the orange lettering with no outline and adding an orange silhouette of Nancy Drew peering through a magnifying glass; then changing to a lighter blue board with dark blue lettering and silhouette; then changing the position of the title and silhouette on the front with black lettering and a more "modern" silhouette.

Nancy Drew is depicted as an independent-minded 16-year-old who has already completed her high school education .

Nancy Drew is affected neither by the Great Depression—although many of the characters in her early cases need assistance as they are poverty-stricken—nor World War II.

Nancy Drew's age was raised from 16 to 18, her mother was said to have died when Nancy Drew was three, rather than ten, and other small changes were made.

Nancy Drew's is often pictured with an attentive, handsome boy in the background and frequently appears aware of and interested in that boy.

Carolyn Carpan commented that the series was "more soap opera romance than mystery" and that Nancy Drew "comes across as dumb, missing easy clues she wouldn't have missed in previous series".

Many applaud these changes, arguing that Nancy Drew has not changed at all other than learning to use a cell phone.

Nancy Drew is still absent-minded and awkward, and references are still made to pop culture and technology.

Consistent with other Stratemeyer Syndicate properties, the Nancy Drew novels were written by various writers, all under the pen name Carolyn Keene.

Syndicate's process for creating the Nancy Drew books consisted of creating a detailed plot outline, drafting a manuscript, and editing the manuscript.

Nancy Drew's had rewritten the older titles and was not their original author.

Nancy Drew has been illustrated by many artists over the years, and her look constantly updated.

Some aspects of Nancy Drew's portrayal have remained relatively constant through the decades.

Nancy Drew's is often observed by a menacing figure and appears to be in imminent danger, but her confident expression suggests to viewers that she is in control of the situation.

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The Ghost of Blackwood Hall shows an assertive Nancy Drew leading more timid friends up the front steps of the haunted house and marks a transition to later illustrations.

Nancy Drew's appears to be a bit taken aback by what she sees, but she looks as if she is still in control of the situation.

Nappi followed trends initiated by Gillies and often illustrated Nancy Drew wearing the same clothing more than once, including a mustard shirtwaist dress.

Nancy Drew is frequently portrayed pursuing a suspect, examining a clue or observing the action.

Nancy Drew's is often shown in peril: being chased, falling off a boat, or hanging by a rope from rafters.

Nancy Drew's is shown to be a victim, being hunted and attacked by unseen foes.

Longest-running series of books to feature Nancy Drew is the original Nancy Drew series, whose 175 volumes were published from 1930 to 2003.

Nancy Drew books have been published in many European countries as well as in Latin America and Asia.

The character of Nancy Drew seems to be more popular in some countries than others.

Nancy Drew books have been in print in Norway since 1941, in Denmark since 1958, in France since 1955 and in Italy since 1970 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.

In Germany, Nancy Drew is a German law student named Susanne Langen.

Granville's portrayal of Nancy Drew showed her as a ditzy and absent-minded schemer, in contrast to the books of that time, where Nancy Drew was intelligent, sharp-tongued, and quite ahead of her time.

Nancy Drew solved various mysteries with Bess, a gossip columnist at The Rag, and George, a mail carrier and amateur filmmaker.

In October 2017, Phelan and Rater brought a redeveloped pilot to NBC, where the plot now revolved around a middle-aged Nancy Drew who wrote her adventures into novels has to team up with her former friends to solve a murder mystery.

The games follow the popular "point-and-click format" with players playing as Nancy Drew and using their mouse to move around a virtual environment to talk to suspects, pick up clues, solve puzzles, and eventually solve the crime.

Nancy Drew's was replaced with Brittany Cox beginning with the release of Midnight in Salem in 2019.

Nancy Drew's is joined by her friends Bess Marvin, George Fayne, and the Hardy Boys to solve the mystery.

Nancy Drew is treated with respect: her decisions are rarely questioned and she is trusted by those around her.

Nancy often explores secret passages, prompting Nancy Pickard to argue that Nancy Drew is a figure equivalent to the ancient Sumerian deity Inanna and that Nancy's "journeys into the 'underground" are, in psychological terms, explorations of the unconscious.

Nancy Drew is a heroic figure, undertaking her adventures not for the sake of adventure alone, but in order to help others, particularly the disadvantaged.

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