I always thought that was the real motivation, Harry.
I loved Nancy Drew as a kid (still have a thing for redheads, but obviously not too much of one: my wife's a dark blond). I've read a couple of the original ones again recently (in paper -- it was before the Reader's launch), and like Karen, I didn't find them as riveting, but they're still pretty good. One of these days I may break and buy the set of "original" texts, to see what they were like, I've only ever read dumbed-down version.