“We… We Were Never in Scotland”

September 28, 2011 – 6:22 am

Jason sent me this comic that makes fun of Nancy Drew covers. Sadly, the artist did not address my favorite Nancy Drew cover, which is also one of my favorite book covers of all time:

ND02 HiddenStaircase 02

I don’t love this because it’s a great piece of art, but, still, I wouldn’t mind a print of it on my wall. There’s something about it that is just quintessentially Nancy, and I read a LOT of Nancy Drew when I was a kid.

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7 Comments

  1. tanita
    Posted September 28, 2011 at 6:41 am | Permalink

    I came late to a love of mysteries (I blame Jessica Lansberry), but Nancy Drew cracked me up because she was always so knowing and confident. The 40′s b&w movies of her mysteries are hilarious. She never fails, she never falters, and no, she never drops that flashlight…

    I also have an unhealthy affection for Hark, A Vagrant.

  2. adrienne
    Posted September 28, 2011 at 8:25 am | Permalink

    Bonus points to Tanita for noticing my image title. WOOT!

    I started reading Nancy Drew as something to tide me over in between Stephen King releases when I was in the fourth and fifth grade. (This is maybe more insight into my personality than I should put in a public forum.) Anyway, I’m not even sure I liked the Nancy Drews all that much, but the school library and my friend’s mother had a lot of them, and frequently I just read whatever came into my path. I know I found Nancy irritating as a person, but I also liked the notion that maybe someday I could be as together as she was. (Still waiting for that particular someday.)

    I ditched Nancy completely when I discovered Agatha Christie in the sixth grade.

  3. adrienne
    Posted September 28, 2011 at 8:26 am | Permalink

    Also, I put Hark, A Vagrant in my Google Reader. It really is amusing.

  4. olivia
    Posted September 28, 2011 at 4:34 pm | Permalink

    I read every Nancy Drew mystery I could get my hands on. Then I moved on to the Sweet Valley High books. I had great taste. :)

  5. adrienne
    Posted September 28, 2011 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

    I read about two of those Sweet Valley Highs, and then I moved on to V.C. Andrews, which was WAY more interesting.

  6. Sara Lewis Holmes
    Posted October 1, 2011 at 12:26 pm | Permalink

    I used to buy used Nancy Drew books for a quarter at this great bookstore in PA. I have my childhood copy of Hidden Staircase on display in the den—not so much for the book, but for the memory of the thrill of buying it with my own money.

    I wish I’d kept some Agatha Christie, too. I think I got the first one from my grandma.

  7. adrienne
    Posted October 1, 2011 at 3:31 pm | Permalink

    I still have some books I bought myself when I was a kid, too, and they are special.

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