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Carolyn Keene

Vote for Your Favorite Classic YA Mystery Series

By Crime HQ

May 2, 2017

  Tell us what you chose and why in the comments below!

The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

The Young Crime-Solving Protégés: Top 5 Kid Detectives

By Kate Voss

October 2, 2013

Kid Detectives: The Young Crime-Solving Protégés Encyclopedia Brown possess a skill many of us wish we had or wish we were better at — knowing just about everything. If I had his skills, just imagine how good I would be at a game of trivia. Although he may be a fictional character, he inspires young…

Ghost of Thornton Hall

The Digital Detective: Nancy Drew Video Games

By Amy Eller Lewis

September 25, 2013

She is the undisputed Queen of Girl Sleuths, the Uber-Goddess with a roadster, so it should be no surprise that the Nancy Drew Mystery Games by Her Interactive, truly truly have no peer in the realm. And I have played all of them. Every. Single. One. (Except #28, the most recent so NO SPOILERS) And…

What Are the Grandchildren Reading?: A Kids’ Review of Two Graphic Novels

By Terrie Farley Moran

March 28, 2013

The best way to review a children’s book is to take it to the kids themselves! Blogger Terrie Farley Moran asked her grandchildren to review the graphic novels Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: Secret Sand Sleuths by Sarah Kinney and Stan Goldberg, and The Secret of Whale Island by Thea Stilton. Here’s what they…

The Evolution of Nancy Drew

By Deborah Lacy

March 9, 2013

Nancy Drew is more than 80 years old but she is still going strong.  The titian-haired wonder has been the subject of movies, TV series, hardback books, soft cover, and even graphic novels. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Sandra Day O’Connor are among the many amazing…

The killer is more mysterious than usual during a Mardi Gras Murder!

Murder Mardi Gras Style

By Deborah Lacy

February 7, 2013

Mardi Gras is the ultimate festival for food, fun, and mayhem, which also makes it the perfect time and place for a fictional murder or two. While Mardi Gras (also called Carnival in some countries) means “Fat Tuesday” in French, it really describes the entire season from Epiphany (January 6) to Mardi Gras day, the…

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