Nancy Drew is a fictional character, a sleuth in an American mystery series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series. The character first appeared in 1930. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series started in 1930 and ended in 2003. In 2012, the Girl Detective series ended, and a new series, Nancy Drew Diaries, was launched in 2013.
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Nancy Drew is a fictional character, a sleuth in an American mystery series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series. The character first appeared in 1930. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series started in 1930 and ended in 2003. In 2012, the Girl Detective series ended, and a new series, Nancy Drew Diaries, was launched in 2013. At least 80 million copies of the books have been sold, and they have been translated into over 45 languages. Nancy Drew is featured in five films, three television shows, and popular computer games; she also appears in a variety of merchandise sold around the world. Nancy is often described as a super girl. She is as cool as Mata Hari and as sweet as Betty Crocker. Nancy never lacks money, and in later volumes of the series often travels to faraway locations, such as France in The Mystery of the 99 Steps, Nairobi in The Spider Sapphire The Runaway Bride in Costa Rica in “The Mysterious Mannequin” and Alaska in Curse of the Arctic Star. Nancy is also able to travel freely about the United States, thanks in part to her blue roadster in the original series and a blue convertible in the later books in which she is a roadster. Nancy was a fine painter, spoke French, and had frequently run motor boats. She was a skilled driver who at sixteen ‘flashed into the garage with a skill born of long practice.’The prodigy was a sure shot, an excellent swimmer, skillful oarsman, expert seamstress, gourmet cook, and a fine bridge player.
Nancy brilliantly played tennis and golf, and rode like a cowboy. Nancy danced like Ginger Rogers and could administer first aid like the Mayo brothers. Nancy is a mythic hero, an expression of wish fulfillment, or an embodiment of contradictory ideas about femininity. She never accepts monetary compensation for the trouble and presumed expense to which she goes to solve mysteries, however, by implication, her expenses are often paid by a client of her father’s, as part of the costs of solving one of his cases. In the original versions of the. series, she was a 16-year-old high school graduate. In later versions, she is rewritten and aged to be an 18-year,high school graduate and detective. She lives in the fictional town of River Heights with her father, attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen. As a child, she loses her mother. Her loss is reflected in her early independence—running a household since the age of ten with a clear-cut servant in early series and referring to the servant as a surrogate parent in later ones. She also occasionally joined by her boyfriend Ned Nickerson, a student at Emerson College. In the words of Bobbie Ann Mason, Nancy is “as immaculate and self-possessed as a Miss America on tour.”
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