This website contains a bibliography of the multiple incarnations of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries, from the earliest Hardy Boys Mystery Stories of 1927 to the recent series Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers. This site also includes three series created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and now published by Simon & Schuster: the Bobbsey Twins, the Dana Girls, and Tom Swift. Coupled with these lists of primary texts are lists of secondary materials, such as book-length studies, academic papers, and selected periodical articles. This website is strictly for research purposes and is intended as a resource for scholars and readers of these popular series. I plan to update the site on an ongoing basis.
A number of new series, spin-offs, and revivals have been released over the last few years. Following the success of the revamped book series Nancy Drew: Girl Detective (2004-), Simon & Schuster cancelled the longrunning series The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories after 190 volumes and replaced it with a new series, The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers (2005-). Both series have led to respective "Super Mystery" companion series as well as graphic novels published by Papercutz. The first title in a new crossover series, Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, written jointly by Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon, will be released in summer 2007.
In April 2005, Grosset & Dunlap rereleased eight volumes of both Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries first published in 1979-1981 by Simon & Schuster, with more rereleased volumes possibly underway. At the same time, the first season of Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977-1979) was released on DVD. That same year, to celebrate Nancy Drew's 75th anniversary, Applewood Books, publishers of several facsimile editions of these series, issued a boxed set of the first six Nancy Drew volumes, originally published in 1930-1931. Also issued at this time were Roger Price and Leonard Stern's Nancy Drew Mad Libs; a new study, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, by Melanie Rehak; and a rerelease of The Nancy Drew Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking, originally published in 1973. A line of noteboks, journals, address books, postcards, and stationery is also available.
New!!: The second season of the 1977-1979 television series Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries will be released on DVD on 12 June 2007! Read all about it here. That same day, Warner Bros. will release the four Nancy Drew films from the 1930s on a 2-disc DVD! Read all about it here.
New!!: Following the success of the new series Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, the long-running series The Nancy Drew Notebooks was canceled in late 2005, to be replaced by a new series, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, beginning in June 2006. That same month, Aladdin Paperbacks launched a new series, Tom Swift, Young Inventor. There is also talk of reviving the Dana Girls series in the next few years.
New!!: The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, two short-lived television series from 1995, were released on DVD in May 2006! Download Kaboom's brochure for more information. (Thanks to Nancy and Sal for bringing the brochure to my attention.)
New!!: Warner Bros. is presently filming a new Nancy Drew movie, tentatively titled Nancy Drew: The Mystery in the Hollywood Hills, starring Emma Roberts as Nancy Drew. The movie is slated for release in 2007. Read more about it here. As well, Simon Spotlight will publish a novelization by Daniela Burr in 2007, titled Nancy Drew: Murder in the Hollywood Hills.
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About the Site Owner
Benjamin Lefebvre is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies at University of Alberta and a Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures (CRYTC). He recently contributed the entries on "Hardy Boys Series," "Nancy Drew," and "Stratemeyer Syndicate" to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, edited by Jack Zipes (Oxford University Press, 2006).