It's A Clue

In Episode 64, we talk about Nancy Drew and the Spider Sapphire Mystery! But first: Karen is moving into her hammock, Kelly is off to the Space Needle, and we learn a new vocab word: ossicones! Giraffes aside, Ned and George get 'napped, Gwen gets reformed and needs her own book, the Emerson guys get in a "dust-em-up" and lose horribly, and Nancy sings the amnesia right outta' someone. We both want to go to Africa after reading this book, which you probably will too - caveat being, you've gotta do it Nancy Style with full amenities.

Rated 8.5 / 12 deadly suitcases

Recommendations:

• Palm Royale on Apple TV+
• Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

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In this Super Sleuth episode, we talk about “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” - aka, the first in the series about our second favorite girl detective of all time, Flavia de Luce. Karen gives us some great background on author Alan Bradley and how this book came to be. Then we dig into poison lipstick, the love of libraries, priceless stamps, the need for a Clue Crew, and how Nancy and Flavia overlap (and don’t) in the Venn Diagram of Sleuths.

In other news, Karen wants a tertiary understanding of everything in the universe, Kelly wants to visit The Poison Garden, and Karen’s mind is blown by a burning question. Don’t forget - kick ‘em in the Casanovas!

Rated 11.75 poisonous lipsticks

Recommendations:
“Murder in New York” (Netflix)
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

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In episode 62, we "dig" (get it?) into Nancy Drew & The Clue in the Crossword Cipher. First, we discuss extreme weather events IRL, read a letter from Eloise, talk about raver dolls and cryptid fests, and get a thorough history lesson about the Nazca Lines! Then, we go along with the Clue Crew on a Succession-worthy all-expenses paid trip to South America where Nancy & Co:

• almost get sucked from an airplane
• dig up a very important archaeological site
• find a mummy and a treasure
• and do lots of judo!

Rated 6.5 out of 12 Parachutists

Next up - a TBD super sleuth mystery!

Recommendations:
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne PhD
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

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In Episode 61, we talk all about Nancy Drew & The Mystery of the 99 Steps!

Let’s head off to France with the Clue Crew to explore 400 chateaux, count 2,000 steps, evade one Mr. 9, and have run ins with at least 5 Auberts. Carson disingenuously offers to share his fee with Nancy, George gets yoinked by the throat, Bess continues to demonstrate sound judgement, and Ned probably cried and cried because HENRI!

In other news, we talk about cartoons with tasting menu recommendations, Karen is going to punk up an AG and discovers she likes a “big bad”, Kelly is going to a cryptid festival and needs a subterranean alchemical lair IRL, and we need those Super Sleuth recs from our listeners!

Rated 8.5 out of 12 dogs named Fifi

Recommendations:
Dolls of Our Lives by Mary Mahoney and Allison Horrocks
Less by Andrew Sean Greer

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This week, we’re (begrudgingly and against our better judgement) talking about Nancy Drew and The Phantom of Pine Hill. Kelly would solve the mystery with a Chapter 2 slumber party, Karen would have passed on this case entirely, and Fifi-the-Cat joins the pod.

Nancy and Ned engage in some real intense PDA, Dave gets stuck in a chimney, Bess is the hero we’ve always needed, Nancy gets concussed (again), and Ned is a real Dad-jokes kinda’ poet.

6 out of 12 padlocked libraries.

Recommendations:

In The Hall with The Knife by Diana Peterfreund (listener rec)
Elatsoe by Darcy Little Badger

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In this episode, let’s investigate The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes so we can go to Scotland with the Clue Crew! But first, Karen is a baby lamb toucher, did you know Kelly was in Brigadoon?, and our friend Bingo makes a special guest appearance (no spoilers!). Sheep rustling is a whole thing, Nancy is a bag pipetress, vehicular incidents are at an all-time high, and we talk about Outlander an upsetting amount.

Rated 9 out of 12 Baby Lambs (redundancy intended)

Recommendations:

Netflix Show: Fool Me Once

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

The Once and Future Witches (Alix E Harrow)

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In this Super Sleuth episode, we talk about our first-ever Baby-sitter’s Club Book - Super Mystery #1. Karen is a Mary Anne / Dawn / Karen Brewer hybrid, and Kelly is a Kristy (shocker). Kelly gets a brand, Karen made it through roller derby, and we want to watch Elf while reading a book and taking a nap. Karen gets the hiccups, Georgio is ILLEGAL, and we learn how to drop a dime. The Venn diagram overlap with the Nancy-verse and the BSC is substantial, and we’re here for it!

Rated 12 out of 12 parade floats

Recommendation:

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Rayburn

Next up:

Nancy Drew and the Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes

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In Episode 57, let’s talk about our very first Hardy Boys book - The Tower Treasure! (Spoiler alert, we both friggin’ love the Hardy Boys now!). But first, Kelly loves an earmuff, Karen has a brain meld with Will Shortz, the word “panopticon” is used for the first time on this show, and Aileen’s gonna hook us up with proof of robotic puppets. Over in . . . Bayside? Baywatch? Bayport?….we have our first perishing, there’s lots of reckless driving, and Joe & Frank get paid even though they probably couldn’t take a fingerprint off a moving horse.

Rated 9.5 out of 12 Decrepit Water Towers

Up Next:

• Baby-Sitter’s Club Super Mystery 1: Baby-sitter’s Haunted House

Recommendations:

• All the Sinners Bleed by SA Crosby
• Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

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Let’s dig into Nancy Drew & the Moonstone Castle Mystery! But first, we’re in the chute to the holidays, Kelly’s crowd sourcing a cookie recipe, and Karen had a full-on mail mystery. Meanwhile, George and Bess are full-on BEEFING, the entire Clue Crew finally gets arrested, we’re missing a people talker to tell us about the random castle in the middle of Indiana, Nancy fears being a friendship pusher but is an #influencer, and moats are swum (ew). A group of Corvettes is a cascade, Mrs. Hemstead is an NPC, and Baby Joanie-Jolene-Judy-Jodine’s grandparents have Stockholm Syndrome.

Rated 11 out of 12 River Police

Up Next:

• Hardy Boys 1: The Tower Treasure
• Baby-Sitter’s Club Super Mystery 1: Baby-sitter’s Haunted House

Recommendations:

• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
• Silver Nitrate - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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In Episode 55, we discuss Nancy Drew & The Clue of the Dancing Puppet. First though, Kelly tells us about The Soupening, Karen is in “snuggalump mode”, and we get to see each other this week IRL! Tammy puts the A in “Amateur” but needed more villainous agency, Nancy receives a gratuitous number of head injuries, and some California-based slippery operators slap a giant puppet on a non-existent problem, which seems like a bad idea. In other news, we left in some outtakes, Kelly references a ridiculous number of movies and musicals, and Karen hates a cute little bait-and-switch ghost. Be sure to help us decide if it was it a police electrician or an electrician for the police.

Rated 9.5 out of 12 Falling Cannonballs

Recommendations:

Sisters of the Lost Marsh, by Lucy Strange

One of the Good Guys, by Araminta Hall (out in 2024)

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