Beloved amateur sleuth, feminist icon NANCY DREW‘s biggest mystery — after 80 years she’s still only 18 years old!
On April 28, 1930, the perennially teen detective who lives with her lawyer dad, Carson, and solves ALL his cases made her debut and has been thrilling fans ever since "Carolyn Keene" first penned the tales for the Stratermeyer Syndicate.
To celebrate her 80th B-day, original publisher, Grosset & Dunlap, is releasing a special edition of her very first book The Secret of the Old Clock. It’s not an exact reprint of the original edition but the 1959 edition which made slight revisions to remove racial stereotypes.
After appearing in a 1930s movie series starring Bonita Granville, a TV series with Pamela Sue Martin and a recent film with Emma Roberts, the wisecracking, saddle-shoes gumshoe, despite advances in technology, Nancy and her "chum" Ned Nickerson have enraptured readers for generations with their "clew" solving.
For many, Nancy was a revolutionary who went out and did a man’s job instead of remaining a docile girlfriend in peril.
Nancy is an admitted influence on all three women who have served on the Supreme Court including Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sonia Sotomayor.
And no doubt, crime busters everywhere followed Nancy to dare look ‘neath a hidden staircase to discover their own dreams as well.
Happy Birthday, Nancy!
