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Nancy Drew

The Top 5 New Crime Shows Coming This Fall

By Abe Friedtanzer

June 6, 2019

The broadcast television networks unveiled their fall lineups recently, and there’s quite a bit of crime and mystery to be found on each channel. FBI, Magnum, P.I. and The Rookie are the only freshman crime shows set to return for more, while NCIS and Law & Order: SVU enter their seventeenth and twenty-first seasons, respectively,…

Film Review: Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

By Joe Bendel

March 14, 2019

For traditionalists, Nancy Drew mysteries were the ones with the yellow spines, whereas the Hardy Boys were blue. Although the two respective series were written with either girls or boys in mind, there was a lot of crossover readership, because they always primarily focused on some sort of mystery. That changed in the mid-1980s, when…

Should Your Characters Age When Writing a Series?

By J. C. Eaton

December 19, 2018

Authors make a number of conscious decisions when crafting their novels – genre, characters, plot, setting, point of view…and the list goes on. But the one question that gets answered as the series develops is that of aging. Characters are introduced at a certain age when the first novel in a series hits the shelves.…

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!

A Criminal Christmas List

By Katherine Tomlinson

December 22, 2016

Oh no! The Discovery Channel’s talking Joe Kenda bobblehead is out of stock and you still haven’t bought gifts for your favorite crime buff. Fortunately for you, there’s this thing called “the Internet,” and if it existed for no reason other than facilitate last-minute shopping and distributing cute kitten videos, that would be reason enough.

13 of the Best Female Sleuths from Pop Culture

By Sadie Trombetta

March 18, 2016

Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and the Hardy Boys, but what about the best female sleuths from pop culture? Women have been solving crime and catching bad guys in books, television, and movies just as long as men—only they’ve been doing it better. Let’s face it, women do almost everything better. Call it female…

When TV Romance Turns to Murder, You Can Win!

By Lynn Cahoon

November 13, 2014

For me, it all started with Ned and Nancy. Nancy Drew was an independent woman (girl) but she still made room in her busy sleuthing schedule to let Ned hang around and bounce clues off. He was the best type of book boyfriend. Then came Moonlighting (1985-1989). Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) lost her money to a…

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…

Mystery Case Files 10: Fate's Carnival

Video Games and The Digital Detective

By Amy Eller Lewis

August 7, 2013

Now let’s be clear what I mean by “Video Games” here. I’m not talking about MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games) like World of Warcraft. For me, its the MM part of that equation that’s the problem. All those other people. God. What a nightmare. And Call of Duty? No thanks. The learning curve on…

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