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4 unusual facts about Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge


Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge

Nancy Drew - Nancy is an eighteen-year old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States.

George Fayne - Nancy's athletic, tomboyish best friend and Bess's cousin.

Bess Marvin - Nancy's pretty, blonde best friend and George's cousin.

Shadow at the Water's Edge is the 23rd installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.


At the River's Edge: Live in St. Louis

At the River's Edge, by the rock band Styx is a single-disc version of Arch Allies: Live at Riverport, featuring only the Styx set, and including live versions of the tracks "Everything Is Cool" and "Lorelei" in place of the Jam versions of "Blue Collar Man" and "Roll with the Changes" that Styx performed with REO Speedwagon on that album.

At World's Edge

The album's core musicians, drummer Simon Phillips, bassist Pino Palladino, and guitarist Jeff Golub, recorded with Saisse in Los Angeles, but not all of the album was recorded on site.

Blue Sky on Mars

The song "Hollow" was featured in the film The Game, and "Come to California" was featured in the film Nancy Drew.

George Alec Effinger

The three published novels were When Gravity Fails (1987), A Fire in the Sun (1989), and The Exile Kiss (1991); Effinger also contributed to the computer game Circuit's Edge (1990), set between the first two books.

Jake Perrine

His sole credit for voice acting is in the PC game Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand, where he plays the devious art dealer / artifact smuggler Taylor Sinclair.

James Watson Webb III

Webb was the editor of numerous films including A Letter to Three Wives, The Razor's Edge with Tyrone Power, Wing and a Prayer, State Fair, With a Song in My Heart, Call Northside 777 and Cheaper by the Dozen.

Licorice McKechnie

She married musician Brian Lambert and later appeared with Robin Williamson with his Merry Band in 1977 (she is credited as Likky Lambert on the 1977 album Journey's Edge) before joining Woody Woodmansey's band U-Boat.

Matthew Sweet discography

In 2007, Sweet contributed the song "Come to California" for the film, Nancy Drew, and a cover of the Stone Poneys' "Different Drum" for the film, The Heartbreak Kid.

Michael G. Cornelius

Two years later, in 2003, he co-authored (with Kate Emburg) the first of the Susan Slutt - Girl Detective novels, a parody of Nancy Drew-style works.

Mystery By Moonlight

In November 2002 Her Interactive released the 7th computer game in the Nancy Drew Series, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, based loosely on this book and a short story in the Nancy Drew Ghost Stories.

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

In 1979, after a court battle between the Stratemeyer Syndicate and Grosset & Dunlap, the original publishers (in hardback) of the first fifty-six Nancy Drew titles, publication rights to new stories were granted to Simon & Schuster.

Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

Nancy Drew returns to her hometown of River Heights to compete in the town's annual Clues Challenge along with her boyfriend Ned and her friends Bess and George.

George Fayne - George, Nancy's other best friend, tends to be more sensible and down to earth than her cousin, Bess.

Alibi in Ashes is the 25th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island

When Katie Firestone, a friend of George Fayne, invites Nancy Drew to Deception Island for a whale-watching excursion, the sleuth arrives to find Katie's tour boat heavily vandalized.

Deception Island is the name of a real island, found among the South Shetland Islands.

Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall

Bess Marvin and Ned Nickerson - Nancy's best friend Bess and boyfriend Ned return as helpful phone friends and voice of reason for this odd and creepy case.

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

Professor Beatrice Hotchkiss – Professor Hotchkiss is a returning character from Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower.

Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships

Bess Marvin won a five-day vacation in the Bahamas and invited Nancy Drew and George Fayne to go with her.

Bess Marvin - Bess is a little boy crazy, but she's great with people and is able to persuade them to do anything!

Ransom of the Seven Ships is the 20th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill

One book, for example, is called "Who to Believe?" and is written by Carolyn Keene, pseudonym of Mildred Benson, writer of the original yellow hardcover ND mysteries.

Secrets Can Kill was the first of many installments in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger

Bess Marvin - Bess is Nancy's best friend and George's cousin.

George Fayne - George is Nancy's best friend and Bess's cousin.

Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse

The Captive Curse is the 24th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Ned Nickerson - Ned is Nancy's longtime boyfriend, who isn't too thrilled with Nancy's latest adventure.

Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device

Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles and discovering clues.

Nancy Drew: The Final Scene

Eustacia Andropov - Eustacia is the widow of one of Harry Houdini's cousins.

Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel

Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues.

Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy

Ned Nickerson - Nancy's boyfriend Ned returns as a helpful phone friend and voice of reason for this high-tech and personal case.

Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen

Bess Marvin - Nancy's best friend Bess is available to assist in her investigation.

Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower

Bess Marvin and George Fayne - Nancy's best friends who can be called for hints and tips.

Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy

Warnings at Waverly Academy is the 21st installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew goes undercover as a transfer student named "Becca Sawyer" at the Waverly Academy for Girls, an exclusive boarding school in upstate New York.

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Reporter is a 1939 American film directed by William Clemens and starring Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew.

Pottersville, New Jersey

Harriet Adams (1893–1982), author of some 200 books, including nearly 50 in the Nancy Drew series.

Shirley Ann Russell

Russell's other credits include The Little Prince, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Return of the Soldier, The Razor's Edge, Hope and Glory, The Bride, Yanks, Gulliver's Travels, I Dreamed of Africa, and Shackleton.

Still Alive: The Remixes

It was released by Artwerk on 11 November 2008 to coincide with the North American release date of Mirror's Edge, an action-adventure video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) for which "Still Alive" had been chosen as the main theme.

Tomboy

Famous fictional tomboys include the character of "George" (Georgina) in Enid Blyton's series The Famous Five, said by the author to be modeled on herself; the character of Nancy Drew in the mystery fiction series; Scout Finch in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird and Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games

Undercover Brothers

In the spring of 2005 NBM lunched its new imprint, Papercutz, with the publication of two three part comic book series; Nancy Drew The Demon of River Heights and The Hardy Boys The Ocean of Osyria.

William Alston

During this time, he became interested in philosophy, sparked by W. Somerset Maugham's book The Razor's Edge.


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