Sleuthing has never been more fashionable...Nancy Drew News and Updates & other fun stuff Clues for Life: The Classic Wit & Wisdom of Nancy Drew, was published November 2007. I compiled this witty classic Nancy Drew style nostalgia book. 
Want to attend a Nancy Drew convention? Here's your chance! The Nancy Drew Sleuths fan group is having their 10th annual convention in Florida, April 2010 and inviting Hardy Boys fans to join them!
I've nearly completed my collection of the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys mystery paint books that came in select boxes of Cookie Crisp cereal. All I need is the Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys and The Visitors From Tomorrow to complete my set! If anyone has one to sell, please contact me: nancydrewsleuth@aol.com.
Jenn:)
MYSTERY SOLVED!
Check out the Nancy Drew Shop at Cafe Press!
http://www.cafepress.com/nancydrewshop
More images of the Alicia Klein products, available mid-November at her website!
Wallet is very cool--see images above and below:
Leather bookmark was really neat! Another quote--about chocolate cake--from my Clues book!
Features a place you can put a picture!
Jenn:)
Weeks of planning and designing=one fun Nancy Drew Halloween party! The local AZ Sleuths wanted to see my Nancy Drew collection, so we decided to have a Halloween party on Friday, October 30. The theme was the 21st Nancy Drew book, The Secret in the Old Attic. I tried to recreate the attic on the front porch complete with items mentioned from the book: trunk, wardrobe with skeleton, cobwebs, spiders, old bottles, sheet music, an old table, hat boxes, a Currier & Ives print and so forth. The Nancy Drew silhouette is featured prominently in the front window.
Spiders light the way on this outside light
It began with a wardrobe - made from 2 cardboard 
Nancy Drew silhouette pumpkin
Silhouette pumpkins by the front door
Poster of Old Attic - Tandy illustration
Skeleton in the Wardrobe & Lots of Spider Webs!
The Attic is Taking Shape with Spooky Footprints!
Might there be a secret behind the wardrobe?
Maybe something hidden in the wardrobe?
Old Attic Nappi Cover Poster to set the theme
An old suitcase doubles for the trunk and a candle nearby
Battery operated old-time candle found at Michaels, good for photo op
Lots of sheet music, part of our party game
The Secret in the Old Attic Party Banner
Crepe Streamers, Orange Lanterns, and Vintage Collectibles
Group Photo in front of the collection!
Everyone checking out the collection spanning nearly 80 years!
Treats
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Nancy Drew Old Attic Picks
Yum!
Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Ball & Ginger/Chocolate Cookies
Treats & Appetizers
Awaiting Dinner: Lasagna, Parmesan Chicken, & Salads
Festive Tables Set
Old Attic Treat Boxes for Each Guest
Featuring spider web boxes and ribbons, Old Attic Sticker, & Spider
Goodies: Candy, Googly Eye Rings, Stretch Skeletons, & Keychains
Opening the treat boxes!
Old Attic mystery hunt: Letters on spiders
Mini Old Attic books to be found in wardrobe as prizes
Spiders with letters on sheet music - 
Our Nancy Drew Halloween Treat Bag Exchange!
Pumpkin Basket with book covers and lots of ribbons and treats!
Neat Old Attic bag
Another Old Attic bag with image above and silhouette below:
Iron On Transfer Bag with treats!
Neat Mysterious Letter Collage Frame!
Dede, Gail, and Judy brought me this neat 
HALLOWEEN NIGHT TREATS:
I made nearly 200 goody bags for the kids featuring Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys stickers - And ran out of them! Normally we have around 130 to 150 kids, this year over 200! WOW! Or as George would say, HYPERS!
Little Kids got candy and play-doh plus a bookmark for the girls!
Older kids got candy, spiders, stretchy skeletons, googly eye rings, 
Inexpensive Jack O' Lantern buckets lit up with battery 
Nancy Drew silhouette hurricane next to Old Attic poster
Just before dark, the scene becomes more spooky!
I headed off to bookhunt at 2 local bookstores today: Book Gallery in Mesa, AZ: 50 W. Main St, and Bookman's on Country Club Dr. also in Mesa. The Sleuths visited these 2 stores at the 2005 Nancy Drew convention. Book Gallery always has a large selection of series books and they know their stuff. I took photos of some interesting items and shelves of various series books--above are Hardy Boys including a lot of UK editions and Tom Swifts, plus various other boys' series books. Book Gallery is having a sale right now--5 books gets you 10% off and it goes up from there, so if you see anything interesting in the pictures, give them a ring: (480) 835-0757. Bookmans didn't have a whole lot this time and I usually walk out of there with at least 1 or 2 items. At Book Gallery, I found a few old picture covers and managed to upgraded my 4th art Broken Locket picture cover 1st printing.
Boys' series began to segue into girls' series in this shelf above. Next to that were the Nancy Drews with some Dana Girls mixed in:
These were mostly blue tweed books with Digger endpapers and blue multi pic endpapers. Then I spotted a lot of yellow spine picture covers--some of these had the original covers, though not many were first printings:
There were also some blue tweeds and some old blue/orange books without dust jackets.
They have a case where they have some older versions of some of the books or ones that have more value:
3 Kay Tracey Books with the original style of dust jackets:
Lots of Tom Swift books:
UK Hardy Boys picture covers:
Interesting Saalifield boxed set of the Jane Allen series:
Another view of the box:
Was fun, found a few things and will plan another book hunting trip soon in the Phoenix area to some stores I haven't been to in several years--including another location of Book Gallery which always has a lot of series books too.
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