Her answer is "Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her," an absorbing, well-researched stroll through a century of cultural history.

Through the years, Nancy Drew's 'girl detective' character has taken many different forms, but her popularity endures.

The character of Nancy Drew, a teenaged girl detective, was first introduced in a series of books in 1930, and she was played on screen in that era by Bonita Granville in B-movies that coarsened ...

The first three Nancy Drew books were published on April 28, 1930. We celebrate 90 years of our favorite girl detective ...

Seventy-four years after solving her first mystery in The Secret of the Old Clock, super-sleuth Nancy Drew (daughter of handsome, renowned attorney Carson Drew) is still searching for clues with ...

“Home Before Dark” is one of several shows this TV season that are reframing the young female sleuth for today’s audience.

The case of the girl detective With the passing of Nancy Drew's first author, the mystery of the teenage sleuth's true identity only deepens.

This year Nancy Drew turns 90-years-old. But instead of throwing her a well-deserved party, the writers behind Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys decided to kill off the beloved girl detective, leaving ...

Summary In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she ...

Young Detectives of Nancy Drew and Chick Mallison are the topics of Aug. 18, noon, Museum Moments at the Union County Heritage Museum. Dr. Kate Stewart, Ph.D is the guest ...

Nearly a century after she first appeared in print, girl-detective Nancy Drew is still thrilling young readers — and the original writer of the mystery series was an Iowa woman. Mildred ...