What would Nancy Drew: Kristi Martinelli, 18-year-old Grayson High School senior who holds a private investigator's license from the state of Georgia and thinks "It's pretty cool to follow people" was a big fan of the Nancy Drew detective novel series and is now apparently living the life ... court papers, drug-trafficking, prom dresses ... oh my! Read more ...

Nancy Wins: Mystery Writers of America have announced their 2006 Edgar Winners. Among them, as top book in the Best Critical/Biographical category, is Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak from Harcourt. Read more about 2006 awards at MWA ...

Nancy Drew at AMAZON.CA : Tomorrow, Tuesday May 9th, is the release date for the 1995 Nelvana versions of both Nancy Drew - The Complete 1st Season and The Hardy Boys - The Complete 1st Season at Amazon Canada. Read more ...

All About Nancy ... well, not exactly ... but the short piece called "The Ghost of Nancy Drew" that Kihm Winship includes under "miscellany" at Faithful Readers where it almost gets lost among the many articles about beer such as "Beer Frames: The Meaning of Malty Movie Memories" not only gives an insightful history of the series, but also provides a sense of the fun the books provide and is well worth reading . You could do that right now. Read article ...

Project Sunshine: In their newly released title "The Fake Heir" we get what the Papercutz people call "a little peek at the type of thing Nancy Drew does when she's not solving a mystery" and learn that:

Nancy, along with her best friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne, appear at a local pediatric hospital in River Heights as Project Sunshine volunteers, wearing the organization's distinctive yellow T-shirts. In a comics panel, in which Nancy is making balloon animals, while George juggles, and Bess entertains as a clown, the classic Carolyn Keene character explains "once a month, we do a little act for all the children with serious illnesses, just to try to bring them, well, a little sunshine."

Project Sunshine is a nonprofit organization which provides many free programs and services to children with cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening illnesses. Project Sunshine Week, a special week in NYC in which businesses collaborate to raise funds and awareness about Project Sunshine, is coming up May 8th to May 15th. Read more about Project Sunshine ... read news release ... or read more about the fifth Nancy Drew graphic novel from Papercutz, "The Fake Heir".