It seems, however, that Josiah was too cunning and many speculate that there is a later, hidden will. In the first Nancy Drew mystery, Nancy teams with her lawyer father, Carson Drew, to solve a will dispute where wealthy, unscrupulous relatives have forced the late Josiah Crawley to leave his entire fortune to them and disown his poor yet kind relatives. Also, she’s 16 in the originals and enormously rich, whereas in the ‘50s rendition she is reasonably affluent and 18. The other edition, the 1930s original, can still be found and located, although I admit that I haven’t read and cannot specifically speak to the 30s rendition, other than to say that it certainly makes Nancy sound more independent and strong and a little less clichéd. The vintage copy that I have, and the copy that is currently published, refers to the re-writes of the series (originally started in 1930) which presented a more toned down, law abiding, non-pistol packing, and extremely proper Nancy. Recently having acquired a nearly complete, vintage set (from my favorite era, the 1950s) of the Nancy Drew novels, I was ready to recapture the beauty and innocence of my childhood which was spent glued to Nancy Drew’s mysteries and L.M. A Tepid Start to the First in a Childhood Favorite Series
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