#Nancy Drew books

[detectivedrewshouldgetaclue]

👵🏼 ☎️

[hrjafael]

Here it is, from “The Whispering Statue”

My favorite illustration in all the Nancy Drew books because how?? It makes me laugh every time I see it.

[just-a-madrigal]

"Whoa, a new girl at school. Do you realize what destiny has brought you today? Yours truly, Hector Sanchez, but you can just call me The Hulk."

Secrets can Kill

Nancy Drew Embroideries

I don’t know if this is particularly recognizable anymore, considering it would be absolutely wild for this screen to appear when playing a digital download of the game, but I played the OG version of this game on my dad’s ancient computer that had multiple discs and required you to switch them out when trying to get into the boiler room. That is my core memory of this game, so I had to memorialize it! This was one of the first I played, and I remember the puzzles being terribly difficult and I kept thinking I had missed clues in the boiler room so I went in an unnecessary number of times. I personally enjoyed the remastered version as well, I felt like it did a good job of updating but also honoring the legacy of the game that started it all.

Also featured are a few of my Nancy Drew books, original editions from 1930! These have been passed down from my grandma to my mom to me, and my collection is one of my most prized possessions 💙

[thenonbinarydetective]

This weekend in fiction

Blair Willows/Princess Sophia, from Barbie Princess Charm School: Found by her adoptive mother 4/26

Jason Todd, from Batman: Dies 4/27

Nancy Drew: Anniversary of First Publication 4/28

What a wild line up of anniversaries

[joe-hardys-cheeseburger]

my first tattoo is from nancy drew message on the hollow oak, and i love to flaunt it but find i never meet people who share the same love and affinity for the books and games that i do, so where better to post it than tumblr?

[nancydrewdatabase]

Book covers in the Message in a Haunted Mansion for the interactable books. Plus two handwritten journals (Lizzie's and Nancy's).

Not to be confused with the book cover of the Nancy Drew book Message in a Haunted Mansion, these are in-game books.

[punchylr]

Message in a Haunted Mansion: BOOK info

-Abby is said to be about 35 years old.  Rose’s niece.  Plays piano.  Full skirt, peasant shawl, hoop earrings.  Purple scarf tied over her long red hair.  She is described as “heavyset” and is sensitive about her weight. Has a black cat named Alfreida.

-Charlie’s surname is Webber.  He is much older, and has a limp.  So not many people want to hire him for renovation work.  He has a daughter named Cassandra who works in Louis’ antiques store.

-There is a homeless teenage boy with long blonde hair that is mistaken for the ghost of Lizzie Applegate.  This character was combined with Charlie Webber to create the Charlie Murphy seen in the game.

-The homeless boy, Timmy Coletti, has a white dog named Tramp.  Lizzie Applegate also had a white dog.

-The phoenix is a symbol of San Francisco, because of the rebuilding after fire.

-Nancy, Bess, and George go to a Chinese restaurant across the street and meet a waitress named Mary Lee.  Her family owns the restaurant.  Her great grandfather was the cook who worked at the GG hotel.  Mary appears several times throughout the book.  The Gum Bo Fu clue comes from Mary’s family.

-Nancy and Bess go to a public library to research the history of the mansion.  They also visit the Chandler antiques store, along with George.

-They want Victorian costumes to wear to the Winter Festival where Louis will have a booth for his Victorian antiques.  Nancy goes to the festival but leaves early.

-Louis pursued Rose romantically to have more sway over her.

-The book takes place around Christmas.  Christmas Day was when Diego disappeared, after his last heist.  The gold in the mansion is from the Christmas Day robbery.  The piano song references Christmas gold, which was carried over to the game.

Day 1: chapters 1-3 (Tues.) Day 2: chapters 4-5 (Wed.) Day 3: chapters 6-7 (Thurs.) Day 4: chapters 8-9 (Fri.) Day 5: chapters 10-13 (Sat.) Day 6: chapters 14-16 (Winter Festival)

[netscapenavigator-official]

Richard Topham is a bitchass motherfucker, and after reading the first Nancy Drew book, I understand why he was characterized as such a cunt in the twelfth Nancy Drew point-and-click game.

[the-officially-kat]

they've been arrested for trespassing on private properties and "borrowing” other people’s personal belongings

[undefbug]

Something something drawing the book characters you couldn’t as a kid

[dancyrilkingston]

[detectivedrewshouldgetaclue]

Amazing.

[hrjafael]

From Book to Game #26: Secrets of the Nile (Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Mystery 25)

[marylovemew]

They have the same hair and it scares me

[thenonbinarydetective]

I'm gonna say this in the loosest most bastardized way that I can, but I absolutely adore how ghostwriters will absolutely abuse the fact that Carson has his own law firm as an excuse for him to do whatever the hell he wants.

Although there is some amount of "wiggle-room" in real life with lawyers in Carson's position, I know it's not even remotely close to being accurate but Carson can get away with it because he's just that good of a lawyer and he owns his own business.

He is technically a criminal prosecutor. But also a defense attorney whenever he feels like it. Or Nancy asks him to do it because he will do anything for her. Sometimes if he's bored he'll look into real estate law or if Nancy asks him to do it. And then also estate planning, environmental law, animal rights, business, immigration, employment, medical malpractice, and anything else a general practice attorney would do without actually ever calling himself one because he does have a specialty.

The ghostwriters were really like, "Carson Drew can do whatever the fuck he wants because he's Carson Drew" and that is fantastic.

And now you know why Nancy is the way that she is