I spent some time today on Amazon perusing Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden and my personal favorite kids' mystery series: The Three Investigators. I'm not sure what got me thinking about them or wanting to read them again, but it brought back a lot of great reading memories and it made me want to find copies and give them to children I know who might enjoy them as well.
I was very sad to see that the Three Investigators series is long out of print and there are no plans to bring them back into print, even in digital-only format. If I had money, I would do that.
I also had the pleasure of meeting one of the writers of the original Three Investigators series: William Arden. His real name was Dennis Lynds and he also used the pseudonym Michael Collins. His wife is Gayle Lynds who has written fiction under her own name and wrote three of the Three Investigators Crimebusters books under the name G.H. Stone.
I remember going to FedCo or The Price Club with six dollars and the hope of finding two Nancy Drews I didn't have. I usually managed to get at least one. I even remember picking up The Thirteenth Pearl (Nancy Drew #56) where it mentioned #57 (The Triple Hoax), but subsequent printings omitted that as the owners of the brand changed publishers. I still have that copy of the book, in fact.
So how did this make my life better? It was a reminder of simpler times and a gentle nudge that I can still have those simple moments and should for that matter. I plan to turn off the TV at times in the near future and just dropping into a novel.
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