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Updates & Announcements

6 May 2008: Updates made to the following page: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew.

25 March 2008: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers Super Mystery; Nancy Drew: Girl Detective.

4 February 2008: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers; Nancy Drew: Girl Detective.

3 January 2008: Updates made to the following page: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew.

5 August 2007: Simon & Schuster will rerelease Nancy Drew Ghost Stories in 2008! Updates made to the following pages: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective; Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew.

16 June 2007: Updates made to the following pages: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers [Graphic novel], Nancy Drew: Girl Detective [Graphic novel], Miscellaneous titles.

11 April 2007: Update made to the following page: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers [Graphic novel].

27 March 2007: Update made to the following page: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective.

27 February 2007: 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.

25 February 2007: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers; Nancy Drew: Girl Detective; Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew; Tom Swift, Young Inventor.

30 December 2006: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers; Miscellaneous titles; Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew.

20 November 2006: Update made to the following page: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective.

14 November 2006: Update made to the following page: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers.

13 October 2006: Update made to the following page: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective Super Mystery.

4 October 2006: The Warner Bros. film Nancy Drew: The Mystery in the Hollywood Hills (scheduled for release in summer 2007) will be accompanied by a novelization by Daniela Burr: Nancy Drew: Murder in the Hollywood Hills will be published by Simon Spotlight in 2007. As well, Grosset & Dunlap will reissue The Nancy Drew Sleuth Book, originally published in 1979, next May. Updates made to the following pages: Welcome, Miscellaneous Titles, The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers (Graphic novel), Nancy Drew: Girl Detective (Graphic novel).

27 September 2006: Slight update made to the following page: The New Bobbsey Twins.

23 September 2006: Creation of a new page: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers. Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers Super Mystery; Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew; Tom Swift, Young Inventor.

10 September 2006: Updates made to the following pages: Welcome; Contact.

1 September 2006: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys (1995 television series); Nancy Drew (1995 television series).

30 August 2006: Updates made to the following page: Welcome.

4 August 2006: Updates made to the following pages: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers.

21 July 2006: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers (Graphic novel), Nancy Drew: Girl Detective (Graphic novel).

20 July 2006: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories (facsimile), Nancy Drew Mystery Stories (facsimile).

5 July 2006: Updates made to the following page: The New Bobbsey Twins.

16 May 2006: Update made to the following page: Tom Swift, Young Inventor.

8 April 2006: The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, two short-lived television series from 1995, will be 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.)

8 April 2006: 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.

8 April 2006: Updates made to the following pages: Welcome, studies, miscellaneous titles.

22 March 2006: Updates made to the following pages: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers [Graphic Novel], Nancy Drew: Girl Detective [Graphic Novel].

15 March 2006: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, Tom Swift, Young Inventor.

6 March 2006: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew.

14 February 2006: Updates made to the following page: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories [Facsimile editions].

28 January 2006: Updates made to the following page: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew.

3 January 2006: Updates made to the following page: Nancy Drew: Girl Detective.

5 December 2005: Updates made to the following page: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew.

29 November 2005: Updates made to the following page: The Bobbsey Twins [Series III].

21 November 2005: Updates made to the following page: Tom Swift, Young Inventor.

4 November 2005: Updates made to the following pages: The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers [Graphic novel], Nancy Drew: Girl Detective [Graphic novel].

28 October 2005: Updates made to the following page: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories [Series II].

23 October 2005: This site has now been expanded to include three new series created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and now published by Simon & Schuster: the Bobbsey Twins, the Dana Girls, and Tom Swift! Aladdin Paperbacks, the current Simon & Schuster imprint that also publishes the new Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series, will launch Tom Swift, Young Inventor in 2006 and has just launched two new Bobbsey Twins series. There is also talk of reviving the Dana Girls series in the next few years. Creation of the following pages: Acknowledgements, The Bobbsey Twins [Series I], The Bobbsey Twins [Series II], The Bobbsey Twins [Series III], The Bobbsey Twins [Series IV], The New Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift [Series I], Tom Swift [Series II], Tom Swift [Series III], The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, Tom Swift, Young Inventor, A Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thriller, Tom Swift [Facsimile editions]. Updates made to the following pages: Welcome, Miscellaneous titles, The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories [Facsimile editions], Nancy Drew Mystery Stories [Facsimile editions].

12 October 2005: Updates made to the following pages: Welcome, Nancy Drew, Girl Detective. Creation of a new page: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew.

5 October 2005: More minor updates to the following page: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories [Series II].

26 September 2005: Minor updates to the following pages: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories [Series II], The Nancy Drew Notebooks.

21 September 2005: Updates to the following pages: The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories [Facsimile editions], Welcome.

12 September 2005: After a busy summer, the redesign and expansion of the site has been completed—more or less. Updates to existing pages: Welcome, The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories [Series I], Nancy Drew Mystery Stories [Series I], The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories [Series II], Nancy Drew Mystery Stories [Series II], The Nancy Drew Files, The Nancy Drew Notebook, Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, Miscellaneous Titles, and Scholarship. Creation of following pages: Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Be a Detective Mystery Stories, River Heights, Nancy Drew: Girl Detective Super Mystery, The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers Super Mystery, Archival Collections, Site Map, as well as sections devoted to Comics & Graphic Novels, Computer Games, and Films & Television Series. Still to come: introductions to all sections.

5 March 2005: Made an addition to the scholarship page.

25 February 2005: A new study called Girl Detective: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak is due out in September by Harcourt Press. Updated the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective page.

15 January 2005: Updated the Nancy Drew: Girl Detective page.

5 January 2005: TVShowsonDVD.com announced today that the first season of the 1970s television series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries will be released on DVD March 23rd! Read their news announcement here.

1 January 2005: Made changes to the welcome page, the suggested sites page, and the Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers page.

11 November 2004: Made more additions to the scholarship page.

10 November 2004: Made additions to the scholarship page.

7 November 2004: Added a new page for the upcoming Hardy Boys series, The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, which will begin in June 2005. That same month, Aladdin Paperbacks will release the first Nancy Drew: Girl Detective Super Mystery, titled Where's Nancy?

16 October 2004: The Bayport Gazette has just published its 14th issue, which includes news and interviews about the comic book series and new paperback series, as well as games, fanfic, and more! Read all about it here.

12 October 2004: Added one book to the miscellaneous titles page: Wayne Williams's Nancy Drew Detective Logic Puzzles (1977).

8 October 2004: Made slight changes to the following pages: The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories (Series II) and A Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys SuperMystery.

6 October 2004: Austin's Everything Hardy Boys site has been extensively revised.

1 October 2004: Thanks to a library sale in which hardcover books were $1.00 and paperbacks were $.25, I'm able to make additions to the Nancy Drew Files and Nancy Drew On Campus pages.

28 September 2004: Made an addition to the Scholarship page.

16 September 2004: Made several additions to the Scholarship and Selected Articles pages.

12 September 2004: Made slight updates to the following pages: The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories (Series II), Nancy Drew Mystery Stories (Series II).

7 September 2004: In April 2005, Grosset & Dunlap will reissue hardcover editions of the first eight books in The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories (Series II) and in Nancy Drew Mystery Stories (Series II), with additional titles possibly under way.

2 September 2004: Made slight updates to the following pages: The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories (Series II), Nancy Drew Mystery Stories (Series II), The Nancy Drew Files, and The Nancy Drew Notebooks. Added link to Her Interactive and to Papercutz to the Suggested Sites page.

31 August 2004: An online article by Jodi L. McEndarfer added to the scholarship page.

26 August 2004: Following the success of Nancy Drew, Girl Detective, The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories will be revamped in 2005. Please read all the latest updates at the Hardy Boys Bayport Gazette!

26 August 2004: Papercutz announces a new line of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, Girl Detective comics and graphic novels! Read the special edition of the Bayport Gazette and visit the official website at http://www.papercutz.com/.

26 August 2004: Chelsea Cain's satirical book Confessions of a Teen Sleuth: Nancy Drew Tells All! will be released by Von Holtzbrink Publication Services in December 2004.

26 August 2004: Site linked to Room of Ben's Own.


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