Nancy Drew debuted in print in 1930, and has appeared in hundreds of books since, ... "I think about all the girls for the past 90 years, growing up, looking at these covers, ...

If you google Nancy Drew, in quotes so you do not get all Nancy and all Drew sites, you get more than 1.6 million hits. In June there will be a Nancy Drew convention in Pasadena, Calif. In 1930, three ...

The character of Nancy Drew, a teenaged girl detective, was first introduced in a series of books in 1930, and she was played on screen in that era by Bonita Granville in B-movies that coarsened ...

And while the original Nancy Drew series has 56 hardback books, Rotuna has collected more than 1,000 over the years, ranging from special library editions to foreign editions and alternate-cover ...

The 1930s: Nancy almost always wore a skirt except when she visited "Shadow Ranch" for her fifth book and donned a pair of chaps. When "The Secret of Shadow Ranch" was updated in 1965, she wore ...

Nancy Drew looks darn good in knee socks for a 77-year-old. ... The same illustrator, Russell H. Tandy, did the first 26 covers so there was a consistent look, said Siobhan Ciminera, ...

I liked the way Nancy looked on the covers, which was tastefully made-up and inquisitive, and I liked sniffing the pages, which smelled like stamp glue. The conventions of the series were stable.