![]() ![]() ![]() She begins Andrew Fleming’s Nancy Drew in her usual fictional home in River Heights, Illinois. Updated for the big screen in 2007, 16-year-old Nancy (played by Emma Roberts) still has the single lawyer dad, Carson (Tate Donovan), and sort of has the reliable boyfriend, Ned (Max Thieriot), but is otherwise profoundly changed. (In early volumes, she even carried a gun.) Older than the Bobbsey twins, and a girl (unlike the Hardy boys), Nancy outsmarted dastardly crooks and remain loyal, above all, to her best friends, alluring “tomboy” George and “slightly plump” Bess. ![]() Bright, funny, and “strawberry blond,” she was considered “bold” for her various eras (from 1930 through today). A teenaged detective with a long-suffering single father and an admiring, frequently befuddled boyfriend, she was the protagonist in a series of novels written by a number of writers (all under one name, the made-up “Carolyn Keene”). Back in the olden days, Nancy Drew was fresh. ![]()
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