![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, her father is very often saying, "Nancy, this has nothing to do with you ? just stop." In the old movies, she stands with her fingers crossed behind her back. She does things she's not supposed to do. ![]() "One of the nice things about Nancy Drew books is that it validates curiosity as a virtue, which was not always the message in a lot of things that little girls were told," Lippman says. Lippman's love of the girl sleuth put her on the path to creating her own best-selling series, featuring gal detective Tess Monaghan. "I'm pretty sure I started at the beginning, The Secret of the Old Clock," crime writer Laura Lippman says, referring to the first of dozens of Nancy Drew mysteries. She was born in 1930, but she's perpetually 18 - and always one step ahead of the adults: the iconic American girl sleuth, Nancy Drew. Nancy searches for the other Nancy Drew in this edition, published in 1932. ![]()
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