Talk:Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

UK Queries

If the Grosset & Dunlap "revision" dates are accurate, and if the UK publication dates (largely sourced from Amazon.co.uk) are also accurate: how did the UK manage to get, for example, The Ringmaster's Secret before the US...? Were the UK books independently revised, or is just a mistake of some kind - or an accident of publication, since presumably the US revision dates are publication not preparation dates.

Also, has anyone got any idea why the order was changed for the UK books? And, further, why it's so (apparently) randomly different? ntnon (talk) 03:12, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Original vs. Simon & Schuster

Can we get a source on "Most people consider these first 56 to be the original series and consider the Simon & Schuster series to be an entirely different series"?

If Harriet Stratemeyer outlined and wrote the first three of the S&S series and contributed to the next two (so 57-61 are largely Harriet Stratemeyer books), I'm not sure why I'd immediately be lead to believe they're necessarily operationally different. There doesn't seem to be any serious gap in time with publication either. The claim that "most people" would think those five books are part of "an entirely different series" needs verifiable sourcing.

Rufwork (talk) 15:51, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

time period of revised editions

I've just read the revised edition of The Secret of the Old Clock and am wondering in what time period the story is supposed to set. The original story was published in 1930, but I didn't notice any chronological clues indicating a time period. The story ends with the reading of a will that divides a $100,000 estate among a half-dozen beneficiaries. The beneficiaries are thrilled to be getting enough money to secure their financial futures. Even in 1959, $10,000 to $20,000 per person wouldn't go very far, so I wonder whether the $100,000 figure for the estate goes back to the 1930 edition.

Considering $10-30k could buy a decent house in the 1950s, it's quite a respectable sum.

* $100,000 in 1930 dollars would be worth $1.400,000 in 2014.

* $100,000 in 1959 dollars would be worth $800,000 in 2014 dollars.

--Unicorn Tapestry ^{say} 12:18, 24 June 2014 (UTC)