Nancy Drew Parody

 

This Nancy Drew parody was reviewed in The Sleuth: The Original Nancy Drew Fanzine in the Nov/Dec 2016 issue:

Title: The Ghost in the Plantation: A Nancy Keene Mystery

By: Louise Hathaway

Book Description:

Do you like Nancy Drew? Do you like New Orleans? If so, I hope that you will enjoy this humorous and PG-rated story about a teenage sleuth that especially targets baby boomers who grew up reading and loving the Nancy Drew series.

Nancy Keene, the teenage sleuth in this story, goes on vacation with her father and friends to the French Quarter. What starts out as a sight-seeing trip changes into a murder/mystery when a docent at Oak Alley Plantation is murdered while they are there. Part travelogue, part ghost story, this book mixes voodoo, ghosts, and bayous into a spicy gumbo of a whodunit.

Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books and many other online stores.

eBook costs $2.99

Amazon Link for eBook:

https://amzn.to/3ylWreR

Paperback costs $6.38

Amazon Link for Paperback:

https://amzn.to/3A6kjom

Nancy Drew for Christmas

Thank you "The Sleuth: The Original Nancy Drew Fanzine" for featuring and reviewing my Nancy Keene Mysteries in a 6 page spread in the November/ December 2016 issue. 

Written as homages to the Nancy Drew books, these five humorous and PG-rated cozy mysteries star teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene, and especially target women baby boomers who grew up reading and loving the series. Gently poking fun at Nancy’s obscure knowledge, perfectionism, and need for control, these books take place in some of my favorite travel destinations.

Here are the titles in the Nancy Keene Mysteries:

The Buried Treasure on Route 66

The Ghost in the Plantation

The Stolen Mask

The Stolen Masterpiece

The Missing Bachelor Farmer

They are available online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, and Kobo.

Some of them are also available as paperbacks at Amazon. 

Here are the buy links at your favorite online retailers: 

Amazon: https://amzn.to/343kcWE

Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/2PjoPGI

Smashwords: https://bit.ly/2LCXnmy

Google Play: https://bit.ly/2RynyP8

Kobo: https://bit.ly/2RwhN4g

Nancy Drew-Inspired Cozy Mystery That Takes Place in Amsterdam

Here is a great reader review for this cozy mystery on Goodreads and in "The Sleuth: The Original Nancy Drew Fanzine:"

"The Stolen Masterpiece is book #5 of the Nancy Keene mystery series, a parody of Nancy Drew. It was by far my favorite story and most like Nancy Drew.

Nancy has delved into ancestry.com, after finding letters written by her great grandfather to family in Amsterdam and has discovered family living there: Dominique and his family- parents Hans and Veronique and sister Nortje. This is her mother’s family. When Mr. Keene has to travel to Amsterdam on business Nancy, Beth, and Hannah, who are on spring break, accompany him. We are treated to some history and descriptions of scenery. Nancy also knows quite a bit about famous paintings, especially by Vermeer and Van Gogh. At the art museum they meet Sophie, the curator, who seems interested in Mr. Keene. Nancy promotes the attraction between the two until they become mutually interested and then seems jealous.

Dominique, a cute guy her age, shows Nancy into a secret room they recently found that is full of old paintings. They have deduced that the Jewish people who lived in their house in the World War II era hid them away before being taken off to concentration camp. His family has tried to trace the family but they were all killed in the war. Nancy is sure that one of them is an unsigned Vermeer. Before they can do anything about it, the house is broken into and the painting stolen! Who knew about the secret room? The carpenters who fixed it when a wall was ruined with water? One guy at school who Dominique told? The kids set up a “sting” to trap the thief but before they execute it Nancy figures out who the thief is and recovers the painting. I don’t think the thief was ever punished. The Vermeer is donated to an art museum; the other paintings that are also worth much money will be sold and Hans and his family will make many euros.

At the book’s end Nancy and her chums appear on a TV show to promote genealogy."

Here is where you can purchase this fun cozy mystery for only 99 cents:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2XLUKFw

Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/2YfMa0I

Apple: https://apple.co/37aU9A6

Google Play Books: https://bit.ly/2MHMzDK

Smashwords: https://bit.ly/3h6AXYK

Kobo: https://bit.ly/37cJyEG