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#12 The Message in the Hollow Oak

Message in the Hollow Oak

@1972 Dammit, we’re back to “reddish-blond” again. It’s like the editors keep saying “Stop trying to make ‘titian’ work.”

Nancy is invited by her Aunt Eloise in NYC to help a detective with a baffling case. Without the internet, how does the news of her prowess spread far and wide? Bess and George, wearing casual summer dresses, drive Nancy, in a “smart beige suit,” to the airport. When she arrives at her aunt’s apartment she is surprised at the unmanned elevator. Is her surprise because she spends all her time with Dad and Hannah Gruen or was that new in 1972? That sacred text Mad Men dropped the elevator man a while ago and they’re still in the mid-60s. Perhaps it’s a cultural comment on the writer’s part because the elevator stalls, leaving Nancy trapped for an hour. This wouldn’t have happened in my day!

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Did I say Monday? Quasi pronto!

listofnow: knitandcompany: pinkcobweb: Set of Nancy Drews via: www.preciousplaytime.etsy.com Awesome.  My best friend in grade school had the whole set of old Nancy Drew books and I had the whole set of old Hardy Boys books.  Good times.  Love love love! All my Nancy Drews (nearly all of them inherited from my aunts and cousins) and all of Hardy Boys (which were given to my brothers, but I’m not sure they ever read) are in my parent’s basement in boxes somewhere.  Someday I will liberate them all. Somewhere I also have nearly the entire set of Trixie Belden (a series from the 70’s that no one else seems to remember) and my great-grandmother owned everything that Agatha Christie ever wrote… so I guess old-time mystery love runs in the family? Oh that’s right, I have a neglected Nancy Drew blog. I’m back on the case, I swear! New post by Monday morning, scout’s honor. View high resolution

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knitandcompany:

pinkcobweb:

Set of Nancy Drews

via: www.preciousplaytime.etsy.com

Awesome.  My best friend in grade school had the whole set of old Nancy Drew books and I had the whole set of old Hardy Boys books.  Good times. 

Love love love!

All my Nancy Drews (nearly all of them inherited from my aunts and cousins) and all of Hardy Boys (which were given to my brothers, but I’m not sure they ever read) are in my parent’s basement in boxes somewhere.  Someday I will liberate them all.

Somewhere I also have nearly the entire set of Trixie Belden (a series from the 70’s that no one else seems to remember) and my great-grandmother owned everything that Agatha Christie ever wrote… so I guess old-time mystery love runs in the family?

Oh that’s right, I have a neglected Nancy Drew blog. I’m back on the case, I swear! New post by Monday morning, scout’s honor.

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#11 The Clue of the Broken Locket

Clue of the Broken Locket

©1965.This is difficult because (gasp!) I didn’t really like this one. I blame myself; I’m super cranky now that summer’s over. But I will press on with NancyFest through the fall. (Since I’m just doing #11 now it’s not likely I will finish by the end of the year, is it? I guess this is now a year-long project.)

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Mad Men, “The Beautiful Girls” Same edition as mine! View high resolution

Mad Men, “The Beautiful Girls”

Same edition as mine!

#10 Password to Larkspur Lane

Password to Larkspur Lane

@1966. We begin with Nancy’s preparations for attending a flower show. It may be because I am an old lady at heart but I love the olden days where young people acted elderly.

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Almost there…

And now you have learned my definition of ASAP is misleading. But I’m almost done! It’s a really long one.

Back to School

Vacation’s over - Nancy #10 coming up ASAP.

#9 The Sign of the Twisted Candles

Sign of the Twisted Candles

@1968. Nancy, Bess and George are on their way to an inn called The Sign of the Twisted Candles which is exactly what I’d name an inn if I had an old man locked in the attic. Spoiler alert! Yes, the three are investigating a rumor about Bess and George’s great granduncle being held prisoner in his mansion-turned-inn. While I am a fan of the polite, genteel ways of Nancy’s universe, I think maybe here Bess and George’s parents should have called the police instead of just sending over Team Spinster to snoop. But I am just a boorish moderner.

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