When Nancy Drew burst onto the scene in 1930, no one could have known she’d go on to solve hundreds of mysteries, both in print and on screen. But perhaps the biggest mystery over those nine ...

A victim of the mores of the time, I grew up reading the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift, but, for obvious reasons, never read the Nancy Drew mysteries. Now somewhat into my dotage and serenely free of ...

TOLEDO, Ohio -- Millie Benson's desk doesn't stand out from any others in the newsroom. Tucked away in a corner, it is cluttered with papers and books. The original author of the Nancy Drew ...

Becky Willhite loves a good mystery. Growing up, she was a Nancy Drew fan. When her mom gave her the first book from the classic series about the plucky, no-nonsense investigator for her birthday ...

Nancy Drew Returns Via Comic Books in ... “As someone who read stacks of Carolyn Keene’s mystery stories as a young girl, Nancy Drew has been high on my list of ‘characters I’d like to ...

Benson, who wrote Nancy Drew books off and on for two decades, fleshed out Stratemeyer’s breakneck plot while imbuing Nancy with spunk, valor and an unflagging sense of her own moral rightness ...

Typewriters and a desk from the home of the original author of the Nancy Drew mystery books, along with a book detailing how the series was created, were auctioned in Ohio on Sunday. The items ...

The original author of the Nancy Drew mystery books is still writing at age 96 -- now a weekly column about everyday life and older folks for the Blade newspaper. "Writing is a way of life for me ...

Running March 4-13, the family-friendly mystery is based on the series of popular Nancy Drew books, written by Carolyn Keene. More specifically, the play […] Skip to content ...