Collected in the late sixties and early seventies, these stories of a smart, resourceful girl detective who not only didn\u2019t need to be rescued, but often came to help her hapless boyfriend. \u201cAttractive, titian-haired\u201dNancyis older than her audience (that\u2019s a general rule – kids like to read about someone a bit older than themselves, never younger) and drives a convertible.<\/p>\n
First appearing in 1930, fifty-six Nancy Drew<\/a> novels were produced, written by several writers under the pen-name of Carolyn Keene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Collected in the late sixties and early seventies, these stories of a smart, resourceful girl detective who not only didn\u2019t need to be rescued, but often came to help her hapless boyfriend. \u201cAttractive, titian-haired\u201dNancyis older than her audience (that\u2019s a general rule – kids like to read about someone a bit older than themselves, never … Continue reading “The Nancy Drew Mysteries”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-school-childrens-adventure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}