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Series Book & Nancy Drew® Sources:
The following sources, by year of publication--earliest to present--are available through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com for easy online ordering.
Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Author: Deidre Johnson, Jun. 1993, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc
The Nancy Drew Scrapbook
Author: Karen Plunkett-Powell, Nov. 1993, St. Martin's Press, Inc
Rediscovering Nancy Drew
Editors: Carolyn Stewart Dyer, Nancy Tillman Romalov, Feb. 1995, University of Iowa Press
The Girl Sleuth
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason, May. 1995, University of Georgia Press
Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys
Author: Mitchell, Feb. 1996, Macmillan Library Reference
Nancy Drew & Co: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series
Author: Sherrie A. Inness, August. 1997, Bowling Green University Popular Press
The following sources are available for ordering/subscribing as noted below.
Farah's Guide, 11th Printing
Author: David Farah, to order e-mail David.
The Whispered Watchword, a Society of Phantom Friends Official Publication
Editor: Kate Emburg, to order note the following information,
price and address:
1. Checks must be payable to KATE EMBURG
(not Whispered Watchword or Phantom Friends.) US subscriptions are $28.00 a year.
Canadian is $30.00, other non-US is $40.00. All non-US subscriptions require a POSTAL money order as payment. Sample issues are $3 each; you cannot request a specific issue as a sample.
2. Newsletter is about 30 pages, ten times a year.
3. Newsletter covers GIRLS' fiction only. This includes primarily girls' series books, occasionally non-series YA fiction for a female audience. We do not print articles about Boys' series (Hardy Boys, etc). We are not a Nancy Drew or a Judy Bolton fan club; our content includes, but is not limited to, these series. Our intended readers are adults; some material may be too mature for children under 13.
Address is: Kate Emburg, P.O. Box 1437, N. Highlands, CA 65660
For more information about the Phantom Friends click
here
2. Newsletter is about 30 pages, ten times a year.
3. Newsletter covers GIRLS' fiction only. This includes primarily girls' series books, occasionally non-series YA fiction for a female audience. We do not print articles about Boys' series (Hardy Boys, etc). We are not a Nancy Drew or a Judy Bolton fan club; our content includes, but is not limited to, these series. Our intended readers are adults; some material may be too mature for children under 13.
Address is: Kate Emburg, P.O. Box 1437, N. Highlands, CA 65660
For more information about the Phantom Friends click here
Susabella's Passengers Newsletter
Editor: Garrett Lothe. To order, send $16.00 for a one year subscription to Garrett Lothe, 80 Ocean Pines Lane, Pebble Beach, CA 93953
Dime Novel Round-Up
Editor: J. Randolph Cox. To order, send $15.00 for a one year subscription, $27.00 for a 2 year subscription to Dime Novel Round-Up P. O. Box 226 Dundas, MN 55019-0226l
The Lion & the Unicorn
Published 3 times a year, The Johns Hopkins University Press. For more information and ordering click here
The following sources and and other great books are available from SynSine Press at synsine.com :
The Girls' Series Companion
By: The Society of Phantom Friends, 1997.
Farah's Guide, 10th & 11th Printings
Author: David Farah
Out of Print Sources: available via auctions, the internet, used book stores:
The Secret of the Statemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and the Million Dollar
Fiction Factory
Author: Carol Billman
The Mystery of Nancy Drew: Girl Sleuth on the Couch
Author: Betsy Caprio
The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys