Psychic Latina Nancy: In "Chasing the Jaguar", Martika Galvez is a Mexican-American teenager solving a mystery while planning her quincenera, dealing with the normal teen hassles at school and coping with her parents' recent separation. Author Michele Greene ... an actress best known for playing lawyer Abby Perkins in the 1980s NBC show "L.A. Law" ... was a fan of Nancy Drew mystery novels because of the young sleuth's intelligence and independence and has embued her character with these same strengths ... as well as giving her psychic powers. Read more ... or buy Chasing the Jaguar (Martika Galvez Mystery)

Rudy Ripped: Six of Rudy Nappi's paintings, including the 1966 covers to "The Mystery of the 99 Steps" and "The Clue in the Old Album", have been recently posted for sale on eBay. Unfortunately it wasn't with Nappi's permission. Read more about what the New York Post calls "The Mystery of the Missing Artwork" ... take a look at some Nancy covers by Rudy at www.series-books.com ... read about Nancy there as well ... or check out other non-Nancy covers by Rudy ... and see what by Rudy has sold lately ...

Nancy and Celebrating Women's Basketball: You may have missed the 43rd Annual Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries and College of Education Event "Celebrating Women's Basketball Past and Present" that was held last week but you wouldn't want to miss learning about the Mildred Wirt Benson archives the library holds, some of which were included in the celebration, would you? Read more about celebrating BB ... or the Iowa Women's Archives ... and especially about Mildred Wirt Benson archives ... Or maybe you would like to know more about the University of Iowa sponsored Nancy Drew Conference in April 1993 ...

Nancy In Tight Pink Shirt: The blurb for this site says it all "As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, prediction." Read latest Nancy chatter at Kotaku ...

I'll take Nancy for 5 Points: In the Accelerated Reading Program at Hucrest Elementary in Roseburg Oregon a Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys mystery is worth five points, while "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is worth 29. Hmmmm ... who is this "Harry Potter" character? And how are the kids at Hucrest doing? Read more about Hucrest ... or read more about the Accelerated Reading Program ...

Crime Lab Detectives: At Building for Kids in Appleton, Wisconsin you can be Nancy Drew ... learning about forensic science, hair analysis, logic and interviewing suspects. And you get a notebook.

The Johnsons have been away on a weeklong vacation to Hawaii. The next door neighbor noticed a broken window one morning and went over to the house to check it out. When she looked in the window, she noticed the pet goldfish has been spilled out of its bowl and had died ...

The exhibit is from Discovery Museum in Arkansas and will stay in Appleton until Jan. 2. Read more ... Check out Building for Kids ... Visit Discovery Museum ... And get the real scoop ...

Channeling the Girl Detective: "How Nancy Drew Saved My Life" by Lauren Baratz-Logsted, a Danbury CT author, is described as "part Charlotte Bronte, part chick-lit and part Nancy Drew." Read more here ... and here ...

Hep to Nancy Drew: Paula Poundstone's cat, Hep, has "taken quite a liking to Nancy Drew" or so Paula says. Read more ...

The Creature of Kapu Cave: Her Interactive today announced that Nancy Drew - The Creature of Kapu Cave has gone gold and will ship in October. Kapu Cave is the fifteenth installment in the award-winning, Nancy Drew PC adventure game series from Her Interactive. For the first time you will have the ability to play as three different characters - Nancy, Joe Hardy or Frank Hardy depending on the skills and clues needed to solve the mystery. Sounds fun. Akamai. How you figga? Wikiwiki now and read more ...

Nancy Drew Gone Wrong: Snooping fun in Ohio that ends with a shooting serves as a harsh reminder that real life adventures don't always turn out the same as we might think from reading the Nancy Drew stories. Learn more ...