Girl Detective is a series replacing the long-running Nancy Drew mysteries series, which had been running since 1930, first from Grosset & Dunlap and latterly from Simon & Schuster. Stories are written in first person narrative style with Nancy herself describing all the action, and feature updated and overhauled versions of the main Nancy Drew characters.
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In the 90s and early 2000s, sales of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories began to drop. At a Nancy Drew conference held in early 2005 in New York, a Simon and Schuster representative said that the digests had been selling about 30,000 copies. In order to boost sales, the original series was ended and the Nancy Drew series re-launched.
This new incarnation of Nancy Drew is supervised by Bonnie Bryant (Jacobson).[1] The first volume of the new series, Without a Trace, reached the New York Times bestseller list in the Children’s Series category and #113 on USA Today’s Top 150 sellers list.[2]
The publisher describes the series in the following way:
“ | "Nancy Drew has a new spring in her step. And it's no wonder: We've given her whole world more oomph. In the all-new Nancy Drew, we've enhanced and expanded everything you've loved about Nancy, Bess, and George, and the rest of Nancy's crew. You loved the series before, but with more dimension, you'll love the series even more now! Learn why River Heights is such a hotbed of criminal activity, meet some new key sources of information for Nancy on all her cases, become acquainted with Nancy's new nemesis, and become even closer friends with Bess and George. And that's just the beginning..."[3] | ” |
Books in the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective are released in paperback format by Simon & Schuster.[4] Beginning in 2008, the mysteries are now presented as 3-book mini arcs, drawing the mystery out over three distinct, but linked, titles.
1. Without a Trace, (Mar 2004) |
11. Riverboat Ruse, (May 2005) |
21. Close Encounters, (Jan 2007) |
These books are three part stories. |
Identity Mystery Trilogy: Nancy joins an online world to find some cyber bullies. |
Model Mystery Trilogy: Nancy must find a secret of sabotage at a star's wedding. |
Eco-Mystery Trilogy: |
Sabotage Mystery Trilogy: |
Malibu Mayhem Trilogy: |
Graphic novels series were released in paperback and hardcover format by Papercutz[1].
The Nancy Drew: All-New Girl Detective novels are usually based in the fictional town of River Heights, which is located in Illinois. Other fictional cities that are mentioned are Silver Creek, East Bank, Cutler Falls, and Trib Falls, which are all near River Heights and the Muskoka River. River Heights is a 1-hour drive east of the real city, Chicago, which has been mentioned frequently.