Dutch lawmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali told Morley Safer that she found the courage to break with her family's traditional Islam by reading Nancy Drew. And Virginia Cook, age 41/2, wrote a short note in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration cancelled millions in arts funding. A film about the beloved Nancy Drew series was on the chopping ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1920s Nancy Drew was a flapper, the ‘50s Nancy Drew was a good girl who did what she was told, the ’70s Nancy Drew broke through on television for the first time, and the ’90s Nancy Drew ...

The concept of “Nancy Drew — Girl Detective!” was the hook for Carolyn Keene’s series; today they would be dubbed young adult novels, back then they were kids’ mysteries.

With the Girl Detective celebrating 90 years, a fan-favorite show on The CW, and a recent film, Nancy fans across all media will devour and not soon forget this gritty and stylish story.

What makes a teenage girl detective “Nancy Drew” if you want the brand name to mean anything? It works best here when Nancy’s investigative process is at its most quaint.