(Literally: A lot of the books have Nancy losing consciousness at a vital moment, like one of those fainting goats.) She solved the mystery. She got knocked down, and she got up again. The mysteries generally turned on something like a phantom horse or Indian amulet or set of purloined African documents, and they relied on line breaks and exclamation points for narrative velocity. Nancy, an amateur sleuth, was customarily described somewhere in the first few pages as “titian-haired” - a phrase that no child in recent centuries has read without confusion - before stumbling into a mystery and becoming obsessed with it.
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The conventions of the series were stable. I would describe them less as novels than as “fodder.” I liked the way Nancy looked on the covers, which was tastefully made-up and inquisitive, and I liked sniffing the pages, which smelled like stamp glue. Lined up on a shelf, the yellow spines formed a banana slug of escape opportunities. The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories were designed for bulk acquisition.
If you are me, Nancy Drew is the first thing you collected, meaning the first thing I desired with completist gluttony and could, at $2 a pop from the local used-book store, afford. And there are over 70 million of the books in print - a number that includes both the classics and their spinoffs.) If you are a network executive, she is marketable intellectual property. (The original Nancy Drew books still sell more than 350,000 copies a year. If you are in sales at Penguin Random House, she is a cash cow. ( Why are girls at school mean to me? Why do I bleed from the crotch every month?) If you are a woman who has aged out of that demo, she is nostalgia.
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Who is Nancy Drew? At the New York Public Library, she is filed under “Women Detectives” and “Action and Adventure Fiction” and “Code and Cipher Stories.” If you are the target demo of a Drew book - tween, female, and solitary enough to spend time reading - she is the antidote to a life full of mysteries with unsatisfying conclusions.
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