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Stratemeyer Syndicate Records, New York Public Library.Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson Papers, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.Nancy Drew interactive games (HER Interactive).Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene (Simon & Schuster).Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene (Random House).Today's Nancy Drew is distinctly modern, but to McMann, her appeal is timeless: "There's something about mystery and a really all-consuming story that a) is a really nice escape for people and is just pure entertainment, and that is a beautiful, wonderful, important thing especially in times when things are rocky in society for whatever reason."Īnd so, it turns out that the "secret" of the 90-year-old Nancy is that Nancy never gets old. So, it was something of a shock to longtime fans that the opening scene of The CW's "Nancy Drew" began like this. Definitely not getting married!" laughed Fisher. She even had a list of things that her Nancy would never do – like drive above the speed limit. Adams, said Fisher, "was very protective of the character." That later Nancy Drew was the work of the daughter of Edward Stratemeyer, Harriet Adams, who treated Nancy like family. The "Later Nancy"? That's right, you just heard a clue that your great-grandmother's Nancy was not the Nancy of the '50s and '60s and '70s. "So, Mildred's Nancy was very similar to Mildred, kind of out there in the world, a little more rough-and-tumble than later Nancy," Fisher said. She was 24 when she wrote the first Nancy Drew book."īenson wrote 23 of the first 30 books. Said Fisher, "There have been numerous ghostwriters, men and women, over the years that have written under that pseudonym."įisher said there were ghostwriters, and then there was Mildred Benson: "Millie was a real-life Nancy Drew. So, who then, you might wonder, is Carolyn Keene?Ī penname. She was the creation of children's publishing magnate Edward Stratemeyer, who then – plot twist! – passed away days after the first book was published. The girl gumshoe breezed into print in 1930. Fisher said Nancy has always been ahead of her time: "Very sophisticated for an 18-year-old, that was what was so appealing, I think, 'cause Nancy would often best the local police force and solve cases they couldn't solve."