True Drew

Hello True Drews! For this week's episode, we get to talk about book #97 The Mystery at Magnolia Mansion! Bess Marvin has befriended the famous southern writer, Amelia Beaufort, by becoming pen pals with her, but when the letters from Amelia suddenly stop coming, Bess becomes worried and confides in Nancy. Not long after, Bess finds two plane tickets in the mail from Amelia herself, inviting B...

Hello True Drews! On this week's episode, we discuss book #96 The Case of the Photo Finish! An international high school sports competition has descended upon River Heights and everyone is getting in on the fun! Families are hosting international students and the games are sure to have a huge turn out---but Cheryl Pierce, who is staying with Nancy has received some threats, and so has George&#...

Hello True Drews! On today's episode of the podcast, we discuss book #95 in the Nancy Drew series, The Silent Suspect! Nancy and Ned journey to San Francisco to visit some of his family, the Franklins, who own a successful architecture firm in the bay area. Mr. Franklin puts a ton of pressure on his two daughters, Laurel (the oldest) and Lisa (the youngest) to perform and succeed in the archit...

Hello True Drews! On this week's episode, we're discussing my FAVORITE Her Interactive Nancy Drew computer game, Danger on Deception Island! Nancy is all set to enjoy a vacation in the Pacific Northwest near the San Juan Islands by staying on a boat with George's friend, Katie Firestone, but as soon as she arrives, fishy things start happening. Katie's boat, which she uses to condu...

Hello True Drews! On today's episode we'll be talking about book #94 The Picture Perfect Mystery! Nancy and Bess team up in this mystery to help Nancy's friend, Lee Ann Cramer, when all of her mother's paintings are signed away in an art sale in a very unhanded way. Nancy only has 4 days to help Lila Cramer get her artwork back before her exhibit! Is a rival art gallery owner in to...

Hello True Drews! Today's book for this episode was a super fun one, #93 The Case of the Safecracker's Secret! Nancy, Bess and George are asked by Mr. Charles, the president of the Bentley Bank, to investigate some strange things that have been going on. The contents of some safety deposit boxes have been switched...but nothing has actually been taken?! So, is it a case of a bank robbery.....

Hello True Drews! Well, if you love the game Danger on Deception Island, I have a strong feeling you're going to enjoy the book we're covering in this episode, book #92 The Ghost of Craven Cove! Nancy, Bess and George head to Maine to visit with their former elementary school teacher, who is caring for her niece after her father has mysteriously gone missing at sea. The coastal town is inv...

Hello True Drews! In this week's episode, we discuss book #91 The Girl Who Couldn't Remember. Nancy, Bess and George just want to get away and take a lakeside vacation in Minosha, Wisconsin, but the universe has different plans for Nancy and her friends, when a girl stumbles onto the porch of their cabin and falls over, unconscious! The girls quickly befriend Toby and are pulled into a cas...

Hello True Drews! For this week's episode, we dive into book #90 The Puzzle at Pineview School! George is helping coach a soccer team at Pineview School and some brooches, donated by a team member's mother, are being auctioned off to benefit the team at the annual Soccer Ball. But when the brooches are deemed fake and more disasters keep playing out, on and off the field, everyone starts d...

Hello True Drews! Thanks for tuning in on this (hopefully) sunny day, wherever you are! You're listening to True Drew Podcast, where the mysteries are mysterious and Nancy Drew is going to solve them, every time! ...That was my imitation at being a radio disc jockey. In today's episode, we talk about book #89 The Case of the Disappearing Deejay! Nancy, Bess and George are listening to Dan...

Hello True Drews! For today's episode, we continue with our read chronologically through the Nancy Drew series and tackle book #88 The Search for Cindy Austin. Nancy meets the Austins, a power couple who is working on a top secret project for the US government and their daughter Cindy, who is a 12 year old certified genius. Cindy has a habit of going missing and running off, but when she gets...

Hello True Drews! On today's podcast episode, we talk about book #87: The Case of The Rising Stars! Nancy, Bess and George are attending a Mystery Lovers Convention in Chicago when two of the stars there promoting their tv show, Nightside, go missing under treacherous circumstances! Nancy suspects a kidnapping, but when the actors' talent agents won't believe her and hotel security is...

Hello True Drews! On this week's episode, we discuss book #86 The Mystery of Misty Canyon, which is honestly, Secret of Shadow Ranch 2.0. (I think I also compared book #62 The Kachina Doll Mystery to classic mystery #5 and I still stand by that too!) Nancy, Bess and George head to the Calloway Ranch in Montana to help out a friend, but find mystery instead! Renegade, a Bronco on the ranch, see...

Hello True Drews! For this week's episode, we explore spooky cemeteries and mausoleums in book #85 The Secret of Shady Glen! Nancy and Bess primarily team up in this mystery--George makes some brief appearances--as River Heights is racked by burglaries and home invasions. Expensive things are going missing--are the Rollinses, a recently released couple of thieves, guilty of the robberies? Or i...

Hello True Drews! On this week's episode, Nancy, Bess and George get to go undercover at a department store, Danner and Bishop, where pranks are becoming a daily occurrence in book #84 The Joker's Revenge. Are the pranks perpetuated by a rival department store in town? An angry customer? Or someone else entirely? I hope you all will enjoy this episode!

Holy Matrimony, True Drews! We're jumping into another Nancy Drew book, this time, book #83 The Case of the Vanishing Veil! Nancy and Bess tag along with George to Boston for Meredith Brody's wedding, but the bride won't go down the aisle temporarily when her grandmother's antique bridal veil goes missing! Is it just a case of cold feet and pre-wedding jitters or is something else...

Hello, True Drews! On today's episode, we dive into the 8th Nancy Drew computer game, The Haunted Carousel, also based on book #72 by the same name! Nancy finds herself at Captain's Cove Amusement Park in New Jersey, hired by Paula Santos to investigate some recent hauntings in the park. A rollercoaster suddenly stopping, resulting in a lawsuit, a missing carousel horse and the carousel ev...

Hello, True Drews! For this week's episode of the podcast, we jump into the 82nd book in the series, The Clue In the Camera, where we go with Nancy, Hannah and George to San Francisco to hang out with Emily Foxworth! (Yes, that Emily Foxworth from the HerInteractive computer game, Message in a Haunted Mansion!) But there are no haunted mansions to be seen in this mystery! Emily is tackling a p...

Hello True Drews! On today's episode---also, Merry Christmas!--we head to New Orleans for Mardi Gras to discuss book #81 The Mardi Gras Mystery! Nancy, Bess, George and Ned are all in New Orleans visiting a friend of Ned's, Brian Seaton, when Brian's father is accused of stealing a painting of his late wife--which his cousin owns?! It's a very convoluted and, at times, dysfunctiona...

Hello, True Drews! For this week's episode, we talk about the 80th book in the Nancy Drew series, The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds! Nancy finds herself in the center of a very intriguing case, involving missing diamonds, a woman who has possibly been unfairly imprisoned, and the death/possible disappearance of a famous writer! It's up to Nancy to solve the case, along with Bess, Georg...

Hello, True Drews! On today's episode we discuss book #79 The Double Horror of Fenley Place--which is less of a Christmas-y book and definitely heavy on the horror movie tropes! Nancy, Bess and George get in on the fun when a horror movie, Terror Weekend, is being filmed in River Heights on location! The movie is sure to be a scream, but odd things keep happening--whenever things are written in th...

Hello, True Drews! On today's episode of the podcast, we're covering the last episode of the 1970's tv show where Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys appear together, Nancy Drew being played by Janet Louise Johnson. I have enjoyed talking about the 1970's show so much, from Season 1 all the way up to the end of Season 2! I hope you all love this episode and let me know in the comments: W...

Hello, True Drews! On today's episode, we talk about Season 2 Episode 19 of the 1970's Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys TV show, The Mystery on the Avalanche Express! Nancy, Frank and Joe follow the path of a prestigious skier to Budapest, Hungary and get pulled into a mysterious case involving a girl and some villains on the hunt for some valuables that were her brothers! I hope you all will enj...

Hello, True Drews! On this episode, we jump into another episode of the 1970's Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys show, Season 2 Episodes 17 & 18: Voodoo Doll Parts 1 and 2! Frank and Joe Hardy wind up in New Orleans and wrapped up in a case involving voodoo and run into their old friend, Nancy Drew! A missing girl, a missing body and more antics happen in The Big Easy! I hope you all will enjoy this e...

Welcome back, True Drews! For today's episode, we talk about Season 2 Episode 13 of the 1970's Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys TV show, "The Lady on Thursday at 10". Nancy finds herself in a scary situation in New York City late at night when a man runs in front of her car and has to be taken to the hospital! Nancy quickly discovers that there's more to this case than meets the eye: a...