Confessions of a Teen Sleuth

CONFESSIONS OF A TEEN SLEUTH: Chelsea Cain: Bloomsbury: Non-Fiction: 160 pages

America’s favorite girl detective, Nancy Drew, is back to set the record straight. According to our titian-haired heroine, she was not in fact a fictional character, but an intrepid real-life sleuth who investigated some of the twentieth century’s biggest mysteries. And the famous series she starred in was not cooked up by a team of writers, but plagiarized from her exploits by her nosy college roommate Carolyn—who, not surprisingly, got a whole lot wrong.

I enjoyed this parody quite a lot. It was fun to see “the other side” of the Nancy Drew novels. I loved the descriptions of what Nancy considered ‘essentials’ when she left town to solve a mystery. I would recommend this to anyone familiar with the Nancy Drew novels who wants to be entertained.

AMM