Hello, everyone. The Christmas season is officially here. Are you wondering what to buy for that special person in your life who likes to read? For baby boomers who grew up loving the Nancy Drew books, we wrote two PG rated mysteries about our teenage sleuth, Nancy Keene. The books are: "The Ghost in the Plantation" and "The Buried Treasure on Route 66". Both are available in print on Amazon.com
Merry Christmas and Happy Reading,
Lewis Hathaway
Friday, November 29, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
The Missing Bachelor Farmer: A Nancy Keene Mystery
Our latest Nancy Keene Mystery is here! The Missing Bachelor Farmer is available at all your favorite ebook providers today. You're sure to love Nancy's latest escapades as she travels to Minnesota in search of Lake Wobegon and looking for some Fall color and finds that she can't stay far from sleuthing!
The husband and wife writing team of Louise Hathaway are at it again in their latest homage to the Nancy Drew series. The opening scene of this book has Nancy Keene, a teenage sleuth, longing for the change in seasons since she and her father moved to Santa Ana, California from their home in upstate New York. She tries to prepare for an outside Halloween party in the 90 degree weather of Southern California, with ashes from a nearby brush fire raining down on her while she tries to paint headstones. She and father listen to “A Prairie Home Companion” that night, just as they do together every Saturday at 6:00 PM. Nancy talks her father into taking her on a pilgrimage to Minnesota in search of the fictional town of Lake Wobegon and they end up as members of a search party when a bachelor farmer goes missing. You don’t have to be a Nancy Drew fan to enjoy this book: it is also a travelogue that takes you on a tour of the Twin Cities’ landmarks and also the real towns that Garrison Keillor partly bases his “Lake Wobegon” upon.
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The Missing Bachelor Farmer: A Nancy Keene Mystery
The husband and wife writing team of Louise Hathaway are at it again in their latest homage to the Nancy Drew series. The opening scene of this book has Nancy Keene, a teenage sleuth, longing for the change in seasons since she and her father moved to Santa Ana, California from their home in upstate New York. She tries to prepare for an outside Halloween party in the 90 degree weather of Southern California, with ashes from a nearby brush fire raining down on her while she tries to paint headstones. She and father listen to “A Prairie Home Companion” that night, just as they do together every Saturday at 6:00 PM. Nancy talks her father into taking her on a pilgrimage to Minnesota in search of the fictional town of Lake Wobegon and they end up as members of a search party when a bachelor farmer goes missing. You don’t have to be a Nancy Drew fan to enjoy this book: it is also a travelogue that takes you on a tour of the Twin Cities’ landmarks and also the real towns that Garrison Keillor partly bases his “Lake Wobegon” upon.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Nancy Drew's Relationship With Her Father
I've always been fascinated by the relationship between Nancy Drew and her father. It's obvious that they absolutely adore each other; and it's an especially close bond because Nancy's mother had died.
Her father is a "cool Dad" who gives Nancy lots of space. He's the furthest thing from a "helicopter parent". In fact, there are times when he's conveniently off on business trips while she's trying to solve one of her cases; being left solely under the supervision of either their maid or one of her friend's parents. When I was girl and read how many times that she was in danger with the bad guys chasing after her, I kept asking myself, "When is her father going to come rescue her?"
It really is quite remarkable to me that a father of a teenager would give his daughter so much trust and freedom, especially considering the time when the early Nancy Drew books were written in the 1930's. Was her father one of the first "feminist" male characters in American fiction? The fact that a man was actually the writer in the early Nancy Drew books is especially fascinating.
Her father is a "cool Dad" who gives Nancy lots of space. He's the furthest thing from a "helicopter parent". In fact, there are times when he's conveniently off on business trips while she's trying to solve one of her cases; being left solely under the supervision of either their maid or one of her friend's parents. When I was girl and read how many times that she was in danger with the bad guys chasing after her, I kept asking myself, "When is her father going to come rescue her?"
It really is quite remarkable to me that a father of a teenager would give his daughter so much trust and freedom, especially considering the time when the early Nancy Drew books were written in the 1930's. Was her father one of the first "feminist" male characters in American fiction? The fact that a man was actually the writer in the early Nancy Drew books is especially fascinating.
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