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68 unusual facts about Nancy Drew


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.

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.

Lizzie McGuire books

Novels (which contain stories based on the TV series, with two in each book), Mysteries (has Nancy Drew-style mystery books), and other special books which may be about Lizzie's life, survival guides or episode guides.

Lydia Loveless

In 2004, Loveless, her father, and her sisters made up part of a four-member new wave pop band called Carson Drew, named after the father in the well-known “Nancy Drew” books.

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 Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses

Nancy Drew is on the set of a controversial remake of the famous 1930's film “Pharaoh!”

Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses! is the first installment in the Nancy Drew hidden object game series by Her Interactive.

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: 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.

Carson Drew - Carson is Nancy's father who is a famous lawyer in River Heights.

Ned Nickerson - Ned is Nancy's longtime and loyal boyfriend.

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

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.

Katie Firestone - A friend of George Fayne who invited Nancy to stay with her on Deception Island.

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: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon

The Hardy Boys have invited Nancy Drew to join them on a train trip hosted by Lori Girard, a wealthy, young socialite.

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

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

Legend of the Crystal Skull is the 17th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Bess Marvin – Bess is one of Nancy's best friends, fun-loving Bess has always been helping Nancy solve mysteries.

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.

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

Nancy Drew / Coucou the Parrot / Vervet Monkeys - Lani Minella

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 takes a semester off of school to stay with her Aunt Eloise in Florida.

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

Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill Remastered

While visiting her Aunt Eloise in Florida, Nancy Drew learns that a high school student named Jake Rogers has been murdered at the local high school, Paseo del Mar, where her aunt is a librarian.

Eloise Drew: Nancy's aunt and Paseo del Mar High School's librarian.

Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge

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.

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.

Stay Tuned for Danger was the 2nd installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew is invited to New York City to stay with Mattie Jensen, a popular soap opera star.

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.

In the present day, young American detective Nancy Drew has been called in by the castle's owner to discover the truth behind recent monster sightings, before the monster can strike again.

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 Deadly Device is the 27th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew: The Final Scene

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

Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel

The Haunted Carousel is the 8th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Bess Marvin and George Fayne - Bess and George are cousins as well as Nancy's best friends.

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.

Carson Drew - Nancy's father, who is upset Nancy has gone to investigate her mother's death, and is very hesitant to help.

The Silent Spy is the 29th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek

The White Wolf of Icicle Creek is the 16th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen

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

In the present day, Nancy Drew joins leading archaeologists as they unearth what they presume to be the tomb where the British explorers were lost.

Professor Beatrice Hotchkiss - Historian and writer Professor Hotchkiss is your number one resource for everything Egyptian.

Professor Beatrice Hotchkiss is a recurring character who assists with the case (Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower)

Tomb of the Lost Queen is the 26th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower

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

Professor Beatrice Hotchkiss - Professor Hotchkiss is an eccentric woman who was robbed but refuses to leave her room to talk to anyone about what happened.

Ned Nickerson - Nancy's boyfriend 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.

Pat Bishow

The story is a throw-back to the old girl detective books from the 60s (Nancy Drew/Trixie Beldon/Kate Aldrich/Honey West/etc.).

Pottersville, New Jersey

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

Russell H. Tandy

Russell Haviland Tandy (1891 – 1963) was an American illustrator, best known for his cover art for early editions of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series.


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.

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.