"I love Nancy Drew! She is so cool," said my 7 year old daughter. I had"ve read the first 10 Hardy Boys books to my son ("one more chapter before going to bed PLEEEEASE papa!!") and figured I needed to let my daughter get in on the fun. Of course, my son said, "The Hardy Boys are better!" but who was on the couch listening in while pretending to ignore my daughter and I? Yep.The first book of the Nancy Drew series is the story of a lost will that Nancy is helping the disowned and impoverished fr...

The Girl Detective begins! This is the very first book, introducing the popular character of Nancy Drew. This edition is the revised one, changing the age of Nancy Drew from 16 to 18 years old. (But since in later series, her age is changed back to 16, that’s an irrelevant modification. THE HEROINE Nancy Drew is the only daughter of Carson Drew, prestigious lawyer of the town of River Heights (a fictional town, by the way). Her mother died when Nancy was 3 years old (original edition stated

My February month of reading mysteries is finally ending. I am excited for March as I have previously mentioned, a little too excited. To end an otherwise dreary and depressing month on a positive note, I decided to squeeze in one more mystery, this one a buddy read. This was no ordinary buddy read in a group, but one with my seven year old daughter. She is in first grade and is reading with ease. Lately she has enjoyed the newer, and probably easy for her, Nancy Drew Notebooks Mysteries. I deci...

A solid start to the series that got me started on not only mysteries, but also series reads. Nancy Drew embodies everything a girl hopes to be: smart, athletic, ingenious, brave, friendly, fun, pretty, adventurous ... well, I could go on and on, but you get the picture! I love trying to solve the mystery along with Nancy, although it is easier now as an adult and after I have already read it before! Recommended to children as a suspenseful, action-packed mystery that they can work to solve alon...

THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK by Carolyn Keene (Pen Name) is the first book of the Nancy Drew series. The story is "wholesomely" exciting, and the Nancy Drew character is a great role model for all young girls. She is a smart, compassionate super sleuth, and I enjoyed re-reading my very first mystery story. In later books, Nancy gains a boyfriend, Ned Nickerson, and along with the help of her good friends, cousins Bess and George, Nancy solves many mysteries. I'm preparing a library presentation,

This was a reread for me and goes back to my childhood. I use to love this series and have decided to reread this series. It reminds me so much of my Grandma who always came over to visit me with a new Nancy Drew book and I was always so excited to read it. I had to give it 5 stars because this is the mystery series that actually gave me the love of reading. If I never of picked this book up I might not of ever of got into reading, which would of been very sad, because reading is just so much fu...

I see this edition is actually a postcard book, but I wanted to review The Secret of the Old Clock with its proper cover.This was the first chapter book I ever read. I have a very clear memory of my mom giving it to me in the car on the way back from Palo Alto, which can't possibly be correct because she wouldn't have handed me a book while driving on the freeway. Maybe she gave it to me before we started driving, and I was reading it in the car? It's kind of a mystery.Anyway, these books taught...

3.5 starsThis was fun to revisit! I read the whole Nancy Drew series as a kid and reading this again brought lots of great memories back.The Secret of the Old Clock is the definition of a cozy mystery and likely started the trend in the first place. It was really enjoyable to read again!I hope to continue reading this series off and on over the next few years. It's nostalgic to revisit books that you've read as a child.

nobody is doing it like nancy!!!except for nancy in the remaining 247 books. but this is the first one, so: nobody is doing it like her!!!sure, maybe the following hundreds of installments contain the exact same descriptions of platinum blonde hair and convertibles and boyish best friends and sweet best friends and dumb jock boyfriends. maybe almost every story follows a similar story structure. maybe that structure goes from "the soul equivalent of comfort food" to "boring and annoying" fast.bu...

Although Trixie Belden was my favorite teen sleuth, I also enjoyed Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys mysteries growing up. I think I liked Trixie better as she was closer to my age and more of a tom boy/country girl like I was. I devoured books from all three series as fast as I could get my hands on them, so the differences in characters didn't hamper my enjoyment of the mysteries. I am making an effort to re-visit favorite series and authors. I've been re-reading the Trixie Belden books...so final...

So I was watching the BDSM episode of Our America, and this one chick said that she first discovered her fascination with being tied up when Nancy was being tied up by the bad guys...I TOTALLY DIDN'T GET THE MEMO THAT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN GETTING EXCITED.Anyway, I loved this series as a child. I intend to revisit it someday. Nancy was my girl...and apparently these books are a gateway drug to a kinkier life.

www.melissa413readsalot.blogspot.comThis edition here actually says it has two Nancy Crew mysteries, but I read my book from childhood and it's the The Secret of the Old Clock. It was so nice to take a little step back into my childhood and read one of my favorite books. I loved Nancy Drew and always wanted to be a sleuth like her, among other things :) I recommend these books to anyone that have little girls that love mysteries. I think they would get great joy out of this series.

What if goodreads doesn't adhere to half-stars rating system? We have always the option of providing us with one ourselves, don't we?⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- roughly the equivalent of 4.5 stars, but still remains higher than 5? Serves my propensity for loose rating very well! We now know what 18 year old girls of yore, who didn't live their lives at the rate of 20 texts per minute, 50 cuss words per hour, 30 books per month, were doing when they had nothing important to do- driving around the town in...

I love Nancy Drew and her adventures and her mysteries. Nancy Drew books were my first introduction to the mystery genre and even though I haven't read a lot of mysteries since then, I do have a special place in my heart for these books.Nancy Drew is on vacation and when she learns of a missing will, what better to do with her time than solve this mystery. Nancy meets various people in relation to the will and gathers information. Piece by piece, she solves the mystery which I had no doubt about...

I think Nancy drew was the beginning of the end for me. Her adventures and the mysteries that she solved made me yearn to solve my own. This made me inquisitive, leading to a job as a journalist at 14. It also made me want to write. And here I am...just a few years later (Ok, more than a few), and I'm a writer of suspense, mysteries and thrillers! :) Go figure.I recommend this book for pre-teens and young teens. It's a great escape. And for women who want to remember a piece of their youth, pick...

I broke with our usual pattern around these parts and decided to read some Nancy Drew before Brontë took it on. She had three books she was trying to choose from at the beginning of the month: The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, Stardust and The Secret of the Old Clock. She said she needed "a break" from longer books after having read Murder on the Orient Express and Poison Study, so she picked the Farley Mowat. She tossed Nancy Drew aside, and I decided to pick it up. I am so glad I did because I love a g...

Clearly this book was not written for me, a 47-year-old grump, but I read it anyway, because Nancy Drew is iconic. I read a few Hardy Boys books as a kid and it dawned on me that I'd never read a Nancy Drew, so I figured I ought to rectify that. If you were a young girl when these books originally came out in the 1930s, and even decades after, Drew would have seemed incredibly brave and intelligent, and made for an obvious role model. For that, these books should be praised.

Review by Catherine, grade 5. Try to find the original 1930 edition instead of the1959 one. I don't like the 1959 Nancy as much as the original. But the mystery was still good. The bad girls were really nasty.

This is the first time I've read Nancy Drew since I was about seven, and imagine my delight when she turned out to be absolutely out of her mind bonkers. She's always mulling over fresh tire tracks and sparkling her eyes at her own father while wearing an attractive linen suit. I love her. The only things missing for me were Bess and her extra five pounds.

I'm slowly making my way through reading the original text Nancy Drew books. My childhood was filled with the yellow, matte revised texts. I'm discovering a different accounting of the stories that so entertained me and filled me with curiosity. When I review these, I will just jot down my surprises or thoughts. Surprises: -She's sixteen in this book and blonde bobbed. (not the titian haired sleuth in the later books!)-Nancy's conversation with Jeff Tucker. Not at all politically correct and als...

My first impression of this book, AKA the first sentence completely and totally put me off. I don't know what kind of person Carolyn Keene was, but i would not like to be her friend. Firstly, she writes like a snob. For example "Nancy Drew, a good-looking girl..." Ooookaaay...is that important to the story? Then another part..."she goes shopping in River Heights finest store"....oooookaaaay..."She pulls up in her blue convertible to her big mansion with two garages"...fine! ^_^ We get the point....

As a kid I loved the Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys books and read every one of them I could get my hands on. I have reread several of them over the years. This book started the Nancy Drew series and is a wonderful start to the long-running series. Absolutely loved it.

This is Nancy's very first mystery in which she searches for a missing will. Joshua Crowley has been dead for a few months and when Nancy comes across several people telling her that he had promised to remember them in his will, but didn't, she gets curious. Determined to find the will, especially because it benefited a rich local family that Nancy didn't like, she sets out on her first adventure.There is a bit of class discrimination in this book towards the nouveau riche family, who annoyed Na...

Where There’s a Will, There’s a WayJournalist, Mildred Wirt had been hired to write this series that Edward Stratemeyer had created. He sent her an outline of the story, and in 4 weeks she had it finished and sent back to him. He accepted it as it was written even though he felt that it had taken too much time for her to get to the action in the story. He was so correct, as I was bored myself until more than half way into the book. (This information on Edward’s displeasure with the story can be

Honestly reading this book as an adult was almost brutal. Nancy's whole demeanor/thoughts/words used etc were just so cheesy.BUT, I read quite a few Nancy Drew books during my preteen years & I absolutely LOVED them. I loved them enough to never part with the books & if I find the "old style" edition of a Nancy Drew book that I don't have I buy it, still. So, I am giving the book 5 stars because when I was a kid I really did think these books were amazing. Now, as an adult, they are ridiculous,

The very first Nancy Drew—this one has Nancy investigating and uncovering the secret of a lost will and in the process helping a number of deserving people. I love how sweet and charming the original series of books is (something I seem to always say—and which the newer series seem to lack). And this one has Nancy solving pretty much the entire mystery on her own (with a bit of her father’s help)—Bess, George, and Ned hadn’t appeared on the scene yet, there was only her friend Helen Corning who

I won't knock this too much as this was the series that made me a reader but dang, it's like a book version of Scooby Doo!

One of my childhood faorites! Its been ages snce I read this. Who knew a book could bring back so many memories outside the pages. :)

I just realized earlier this week that I had never in my entire life read a single Nancy Drew book. Considering her persisting impact on pop culture, this feels like a huge failing on my part. And I call myself a bookworm… So, I obviously had to fix this. I read this book, Drew’s first introduction to the world, in one sitting. While dated (it was published 90 years ago, after all), it was an enjoyable read. Not perfect, but I can see why it was so important and popular when it was first written...

Re-read 2021 Although I have a stack of books on my TBR that wave for my attention, I couldn’t help but take a break to re-read some titles from one of my childhood favourites. Originally published in 1930, The Secret of the Old Clock is the first in the Nancy Drew mysteries. Like so many of my childhood protagonists, 16-year-old Nancy lost her mother six years prior and lives with her lawyer father, Carson Drew and their housekeeper Hannah Gruen. Nancy has a knack for detective work and is imme...