This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #54, the Strange Message in the Parchment. We meet a new friend that Nancy's had ~4ever~ and visit her father's sheep farm where we learn in detail the daily activity of the farm. Plus, we meet a shepherd who only speaks in quotes and a little boy who only speaks Italian. Will this little boy be th…

This is your pilot, Nancy Drew, speaking and I'd like to welcome you to the retelling of the tales of Mystery Stories #53, the Sky Phantom! Please keep your limbs in the vehicle at all times and your horses in the upright position (too soon, RIP Speed Boy). This week we're going on a wild plane ride through magnetic clouds, getting messy with surpr…

Let's get diggin'! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #52, the Secret of the Forgotten City. Nancy and literally the entire gang of friends are headed to Nevada to search for hints of a lost city's treasure. Of course they run into all sorts of trouble -- Bess nearly breaks her ankle falling through a roof, Nancy makes some question…

This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #51, Mystery of the Glowing Eye. This book WILD! It's got everything from Ned being kidnapped and missing for nearly the entire book (bless up) to a crazy paralyzing flashlight and robot helicopters. Plus, Nancy battles her innermost fear -- losing Papa Drew to another mystery-solving lady! We also…

GET A CLUE TURNS TWO! First and foremost, we would like to extend a crazy amount of appreciation to each and every one of you. Thanks for listening and joining us on this wild ride. We are extremely grateful for this community. We're super excited for this episode! We're discussing all things books and life with Betsy Hoit-Thetford, founder and own…

IT'S NANCY'S FIFTIETH MYSTERY! Join us as we discuss this week's book, Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #50, the Double Jinx Mystery. Nancy and the gang learn a bunch about birds, including personal experiences about bird illnesses. Can Nancy figure out how to stop the Man from tearing down a man's home and aviary in time? How many times can one person b…

Will a vacation with Aunt Eloise ever be safe? Find out what happens in Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #49, the Secret of Mirror Bay. There's a woman walking on water, a lost Russian coach, hordes of fireflies, and Nancy's evil twin! Will the girls figure out the mystery before someone else gets hurt? Does Aunt Eloise get the guy? This book has it all!…

This week we realize that Nancy would probably hate Styx's hit "Mr. Roboto..." Join us as we discuss the fun read of Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #48, The Crooked Banister! Nancy and her entire gang of sleuths get together to figure out the mysterious Rawley Banister with his architecturally strange house and its even stranger contents. Will Nancy be…

Join us as we wrap up Kelly Thompson's comic series, Nancy Drew & the Case of the Cold Case! Uncover a killer smuggler and learn that there's more to Bayport than we thought. Plus, we branch into the SUPER SPECIAL topic of fanfiction. That's right, fanfiction. Nancy Drew fanfiction. It's a thing and we're gonna tell you all about it! Links to the w…

It's Istanbul not Constantinople! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #47, the Mysterious Mannequin! After Papa Drew receives a rug with hidden messages, Nancy involves literally every citizen of River Heights to try to find out what happened to the Turkish antique dealer. After each bizarre twist in this story trying to find his los…

Who ya gonna call?! GHOSTBUSTER HELEN CORNING, THAT'S WHO! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #46, the Invisible Intruder. This book had a whopping FIVE ghosty hauntings to solve and the entire dating circle of River Heights is on the case. Nancy and crew bob and weave through all the "hauntings" and systematically dismantle all of …

Queue Toto's Africa because Nancy and nearly all of River Heights are headed on a safari in Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #45, the Spider Sapphire Mystery! Will they be able to discover what really happened to the missing precious stone? Will they find a lost guide among a pride of lions? But the real humdinger is... Who is the most famous spider in t…

IT'S A SUPER SPECIAL EPISODE! The girls are back in the town of Bayport to get closer to solving the new Nancy Drew comic series, the Case of the Cold Case! Will Nancy ever answer her phone? Will George keep it cool in the library? Is Bess the coolest girl in town? We're only an issue or two away from solving this baffling mystery involving drugs, …

This week we're off to South America with Nancy, her two best gal pals, and their new Peruvian friend! Join us as we discuss Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #44, the Clue in the Crossword Cipher. Thanks to the girl detective crew, we learn about all sorts of things that we shouldn't do while traveling: don't yell at people who you think may be following…

Oh la la, hop aboard this jetplane because we're heading to France! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #43, the Mystery of the 99 Steps! Nancy and the girls learn valuable life lessons throughout the book: always be skeptical of a man claiming he can turn dust into gold, don't help the man that was once low-key stalking you who is n…

"Treasures, gifts, the phantom in jail, a secret passageway uncovered," and this an actual quote from the book! Join us as we read Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #42, the Phantom of Pine Hill! We're off to Emerson to celebrate Spirit Week with the boys where Nancy uncovers a library being meddled with and a town with a long lost history. The girls disc…

Haud yer wheesht! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #41, the Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes! Nancy and the girls have a whirlwind of a journey in Scotland where they are ever vigilant to evade a false-bearded man following their every turn. Bess is too good of a photographer and the world cannot get enough of her prize-winning phot…

IT'S A SUPER SPECIAL EPISODE! This week we're reading the new Dynamite comic series from Kelly Thompson -- Nancy Drew and the Case of the Cold Case, Issues 1 & 2. Nancy is back in Bayport navigating the tricky waters of friendship, crushes, and serial murder. Will we ever truly find our way out of the cave that is Bayport? What really happened to N…

OH MY GOD, WE'RE BACK AGAIN! PAPA DREW, HANNAH, EVERYBODY READ! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #40, the Moonstone Castle Mystery! We're searching for a lost orphan and elder abusers while using the energy of the moonstone (that Nancy totally received in the creepiest possible way). After dealing with stalkers and strangely opera…

This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #39, the Clue of the Dancing Puppet! The girls join an acting troupe, and guess what -- Nancy's a natural! It's Bess' time to shine as she's got all of the ideas to solve this mystery (be sure to always check your foe's oven). The puppets are more than they seem, and that's the real humdinger. Like…

This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #38, the Mystery of the Fire Dragon! We learn some valuable life lessons in this book... Always read the warning labels on fireworks - don't light them inside, especially in an apartment hallway or an oven! When invited to a party, pay very close attention to the guest list - you never know who may…

This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #37, the Clue in the Old Stagecoach! Nancy, Bess, and George find themselves in a small town on the verge of collapse, and they are here to save the day! All they have to do is pay attention to the one clue in their hunt to locate the town's saving grace. Will they get distracted by a choreographed…

Let's go (coco)nuts! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #36, the Secret of the Golden Pavilion! Join us as we dive deep into an infomercial from 1959 readying the world of the wonders of traveling to the new state of Hawaii! The entire River Heights gang flies to Hawaii to solve a cryptic family mystery while battling ghosts, poison…

Pull up your waders, we're goin' to the bayou! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #35 the Haunted Showboat! Nancy and the girls take the scenic route to New Orleans to solve a Mardi Gras mystery! Along the way, they give Nancy's new convertible a very Nancy welcome, they must navigate the tricky waters of the bayou, and they must hu…

Ghosts, peacocks, and gardens - oh my! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #34 the Hidden Window Mystery! We drive back in time to Virginia in 1850 to hunt for a Lord's long-lost stained glass window. Will Nancy and the girls find what they're looking for, or will they be thwarted by the town's desperate need for a Garden Week and it…

Strap your carriage to your horse, and let's boogie! This week we're Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #33 the Witch Tree Symbol! Nancy and the gang travel to the land of the Pennsylvania Dutch! We learn about the Amish, struggle with rumors about witches, nearly suffocate in a large room, and skim over the possibility of makes millions on a crystal caver…

Dance, baby, dance! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #32 the Scarlet Slipper Mystery! Join us as Nancy dives head first into the Genovian Revolution to reinstate Julie Andrews as Queen and the one ruler to rule us all. We discover jewels hidden in painting and secret writings in a briefcase that were the inspiration to the book an…

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY, GET A CLUE CREW! This has been an incredible journey in our bright blue roadster of a podcast! In the spirit of our first episode turning 1, we decided to take it back to the beginning -- the REAL beginning with the original 1930 edition of Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #1 the Secret of the Old Clock! Just when we thought Nancy cou…

Giddy up, Nancy's joining the circus! This week, we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #31 the Ringmaster's Secret! Nancy is on the case to help an acrobat find her thought-to-be-dead mother and save the true love between an acrobat and her clown. Bess has taken up drawing due to being inspired by Nancy taking up trick riding, and George is just…

Take off your masks, let us see your faces! Nancy Drew, the original Master of Sass, has returned in this week's Mystery Stories #30 the Clue of the Velvet Mask! We've got an action-packed book -- George gets a strong dosage of a mysterious substance after being kidnapped, Nancy gets two people fired, and she saves the day with a toy chemistry set!…

Hypers! This week, we're hittin' the slopes and reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #29 Mystery at the Ski Jump! Nancy really racks up the airlines miles between River Heights, NY, Canada, and back again. Bess' OTP is Nancy/Ned and she is not afraid to dump a bucket of cold water all over Nancy's Yank Bank. Join us as we discuss identity theft, figu…

This week, we're traveling to Florida and Mexico to help a team of professors discover a legendary treasure in Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #28 the Clue of the Black Keys! Nancy falls head over heals for a dreamy Indiana Jones character as we hunt for his missing colleague and figure out the secrets that may doom mankind! Like what you hear? We'd lov…

Grab your eyepatches and pantaloons and let's sail away with Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #27 the Secret of the Wooden Lady! This week we find out that Bess Marvin is 100% done with being caught in the middle of criminal activity. Nancy and the gang are chasing down fabled treasure throughout New England where we discover pirates, grizzly men, and fi…

Grab your spy gear and your grappling hooks and let's go! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #26 the Clue of the Leaning Chimney! The mysteries keep piling on with this book and things may get a little emotional for one of us. We've got a missing family, missing historic pottery, fake historic pottery, mistaken identities and more! …

Grab your flashlight and let's go! This week we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #25 the Ghost of Blackwood Hall! Something weird is going on with the female residents of River Heights, and only Nancy can help (because she's a girl). We learned tons of valuable life lessons from this book: don't get into cars with strangers, don't listen to di…

River Heights is alive with the sound of muuuuusic! This week, we're reading Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #24 the Clue in the Old Album! Nancy lets the sweet sound of the violin whisk her off into the world of different cultures that they totally understand in the search a missing father. She meets the future King of America and his royal court while…

IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER SUPER (MYSTERY) SPECIAL! This week, we're reading Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys Super Mystery Tour of Danger. What started out as a simple vacation for Nancy and Bess quickly turned to deep plots of smuggled pearls, broken hearts and longing. The girls run into the Hardy Boys who are working on their own case of counterfeit elec…

Land ho! Set sail with Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #23 the Mystery of the Tolling Bell! Nancy and the gang are in a quaint little seaside village with an incredibly high crime-rate. But never fear, Nancy's here (and Ned and George and Bess and Papa Drew, too)! This week, Brittany and Emily dive deep into the relationships of our favorite mystery sol…

Dungeons, towers, gardens - oh my! We're back with Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #22 The Clue in the Crumbling Wall! River Heights is absolutely overrun with criminally-active children and a beloved dancer must be found to inherit her castle. Nancy, Bess, and George are on the case of missing clothing, rosebushes, and another long-lost formula. It's a…

IT'S ANOTHER SUPER SPECIAL EPISODE! We're back with the next installment of our series reading Anthony del Col's Dynamite comic series -- Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie, Issues 5 &6. These issues wrap up the current story-arc of the series, and we finally find out who murdered Papa Hardy! The town of Bayport is definitely not as peachy cl…

The house is alive with the sound of muuuuusic! Join as we hunt for thieves in Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #21 The Secret in the Old Attic! What's up with that creepy skeleton in the attic? Will Nancy get bitten by a radioactive spider and turn into an even sleuthier sleuth? What exactly does Papa Drew need Ned's big strong muscles for? The girls ge…

There's royalty in River Heights! Dress your best and get ready for Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #20 The Clue in the Jewel Box! Who is the real long-lost Prince of Genovia? Will he be left stranded on a river by Ned Nickerson? Will the Drews ever be able to step foot on their front porch again, or do they have a new home security system by means of a…

Ahoy matey! We're off on a treasure hunt with Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #19 the Quest of the Missing Map! We answer the tough questions this week: Should Ellen take this job? Like, is she actually going to be good at her job? Will she be fired? Who's Ellen? Not Helen, that's who! Once we figure all of that off and we reunite a family, we're off to…

Be careful, it's a jungle out there! The gang is off to Florida in Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #18 Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion! Something unsettling is going on involving the upcoming moon launch of the Kennedy Space Center and it's up to *literally everyone* to figure it out in time! And what's the deal with the Drew's potential new vacatio…

IT'S TIME FOR A SUPER SPECIAL MINI EPISODE! This week, the girls are discussing several things that have been on their minds for quite some time regarding the mysterious world of Nancy Drew. We're introducing new thoughts on time travel, Nancy and River Heights as a whole, where the heck is Helen, and what's going on with the weather! This is the b…

Get your towels and your flippy-floppies ready 'cause Nancy's on a boat with Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #17 Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk! Nancy and the girls are finally going international, and things get a little fishy. Will Nancy stop a ring of jewel thieves (duh), will there be some whacky weather situation (double duh), will multiple boys …

Tap-tap! Who's there? Meow! Meow Who? Meow it's time for Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #16 the Clue of the Tapping Heels! Nancy and her friends find themselves surrounded (quite literally) by prized Persian cats, not-so-shockingly someone's out to get Nancy, and Emily recounts a very real experience with cat-scratch fever and she's not talking about T…

Time to lace up our cleats and hit the links with Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #15 The Haunted Bridge! This book takes an unexpected turn and it quickly became one of our favorites! This week Nancy meets her match in sassiness, the girls find a chest filled with jewels in a ravine, Ned helps out a gunshot victim, and there's a mountain lion! It's an …

IT'S ANOTHER SUPER SPECIAL EPISODE! We're back with the next installment of our series reading Anthony del Col's Dynamite comic series -- Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie, Issues 3 & 4. Things are really heating up in Bayport trying to figure out how deep the corruption goes, who killed Papa Hardy, and what on earth is going on with Papa Dr…

Hop on board the hype-train for Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #14 The Whispering Statue! We've got a lot to say this week involving a crazy theory about Nancy's mother and plotting the most epic secret (not-so-secret) murder mystery ever! This week the Drew's have a dog, Bess is smart to not get on the water with Nancy, George practices judo on a pote…