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Originally Posted by HarryT
Have you ever looked at any of the modern "Nancy Drew" series? In one of them (the "Clue Crew" series) she's 8 years old  .
Eg:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Camp.../dp/B00CWE8PEK
The young granddaughter of a friend of mine is a big fan. I don't read them myself. Honest . |
I'm a purist. I consider the first 56 books of the series as the canon. These were the hardcovers published by Grosset & Dunlap. After that, the series and the character went off in all sorts of directions, with spin-offs (featuring both younger and older, college-age Nancys), such that there was little attempt at consistency between the series. And the main series began to have so many different ghostwriters--new Nancys were being published every few months, instead of just one or so a year--that it too lost a lot of consistency from book to book.
In those first 56 books, Nancy started out as 16, but her age was quickly bumped up to 18, where she stayed perpetually.
I've sampled a book or two from the spin-offs and read a few dozen of the main series books beyond the first 56. They seem very generic, a bunch of impostors masquerading as Nancy and her chums.