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May-16-2004 16:41

Hi any body has read or is a fan of Nancy Drew, The Hardy boys, Trixie bendel? Puhleez post!
P.S. If so do ya have a fave?
A book lover - Mag

Jun-27-2006 09:48

My favorite mystery author is Laurie R. King - especially her Mary Russell series. Start it from the beginning and do adventures with Mary and Sherlock Holmes :)

Jun-27-2006 16:15

I read the newND books. It's first person,and George is a computer geek, and Bess fixes cars. Not what I expected, but I still love them!!!

Jun-28-2006 03:53

I got my start on the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, and the Alfred Hitchcock books. Now I’m really into Dashielle Hammett and Raymond Chandler. I like Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle stories, but I can only read them every so often. Tony Hillerman does great police procedurals on a Navajo Reservation. I’m hooked big time into spy thrillers and adventure novels. Len Dieghton, Dan Silva, Clive Cussler, and Tom Clancy. I’m a huge fan of all their work. I really get into non-fiction. I couldn’t put down “The French Connection.” I love reading spy memoirs from the cold war (my family escaped from East Berlin) from both sides, very interesting. Of course Harry Potter. I love reading cookbooks (I’m a foodie and a competitive bbq’er.) Philosophy, religion, science, psychology… I love it all. I also just inherited a huge paleontology library so now I am deeply into reading up on dinosaurs. Throw in my magic books and I think that pretty much covers it for now. Oh yeah I have a degree in PLSI, so history is real big for me. Especially early American history, so I have tons of books on that too.

Jul-26-2006 16:01

I started out reading Nancy Drew books in Elementary school, but only the classics. Only the first twenty books were written by Caroline Keane. Some company, I can't remeber who, bought out the series and made it their own. You can see some of the differences later on. I'm not certain, but I think the same company also bought out The Hardy Boys. I used to love the classics, but I outgrew them. The modernized books weren't much better though, for me at least. I love the computer games, I'm waiting for Danger by Design to come out in stores. The PC games are more modernized, which I love. I actually found out about sleuth through the herinteractive.com.

As far as books go, I really enjoy Edgar Allen Poe. The first modern mystery I read was "Tell No One" by Harlan Coben. I know I've read tons more, but I can't remember them right now...

Oct-11-2006 20:26

They were my faves when I was around 8-12 years old. I have just about all their cases -- I even have the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermysteries. =) Haven't read 'em for years tho.

Oct-11-2006 21:42

Does anyone else find it ironic that this thread was bumped, all things considered? :)

Oct-12-2006 00:56

*reads too much into the question*

uhh...are you saying that I need a library card to get to Cairo?