1. Russell H. Tandy artwork

2. Storms

3. The Hidden Staircase

4. The Secret in the Old Attic

5. Hannah Gruen’s cooking

6. A baffling mystery

7. Original text melodrama from the 1930s and 1940s

8. The genius of Edward Stratemeyer

9. Curling up on the Drew’s davenport

10. Fabulous heels

11. Taylor’s Department Store

12. Those snooty Topham Sisters

13. A trusty flashlight

14. Dirk Valentine’s treasure

15. Buck Rodman

16. Ned Nickerson

17. Moon Lake

18. Bumbling villain Frank Semitt/Jemitt

19. Mildred Wirt Benson’s writing style and flair

20. Nancy Drew’s pluck

21. Nancy’s roadster

22. George Fayne’s bluntness

23. Bess Marvin’s dreaminess

24. Finding money in old books (The Phantom of Pine Hill)

25. Lilacs

26. Quaint roadside tearooms

27. The Nancy Drew silhouette

28. Harriet Stratemeyer Adam’s inclusion of knowledge to be learned in each book

29. A good cliffhanger

30. The perfect sleuthing frock

31. Lipstick S0S

32. Secret passageways

33. Travelogues

34. A suspenseful yarn

35. Red Gate Farm

36. The absurdity of The Flying Saucer Mystery

37. Nancy Drew aliases

38. Lucky coincidences

39. Spooky old inns and mansions

40. Hard headed sleuth–100's of knockouts and still going strong

41. Using science to outwit criminals (Archimedes’ lever in The Secret of the Old Clock)

42. Foiling villains

43. Learning about Nancy Drew’s ancestry

44. Drew home burglaries

45. Cheesy villain foibles like All-Purpose Assailant Rocks

46. Visits to Aunt Eloise Drew

47. Hannah Gruen’s midnight sleuthing snacks

48. Friendly and helpful Chief McGinnis

49. Carson Drew’s lighthearted humor

50. When Nancy met Ned in the original text of The Clue in the Diary

51. Archeology backdrops

52. Righting wrongs

53. The profoundness of dumb criminals

54. Helen Corning’s sometime appearances

55. Scrapper Togo

56. Finding hidden treasure

57. Overnight trunk bag for sleuthing

58. Spike heel window breaker

59. A girl getting respect from authority figures

60. “Dancing” puppets

61. Sleuthing in Amish country (The Witch Tree Symbol)

62. Moonstone Castle

63. Ringing footprints with stones

64. Rapping on walls to locate hollow spots and passageways

65. Passwords like “Blue bells will be singing horses”

66. The Nancy Drew Mystery Game

67. The 1970s TV show

68. Bonita Granville and Frankie Thomas in the comic 1930s Warner Brothers movies

69. Rediscovering Nancy Drew

70. The thrill of searching out Nancy Drew books in book and antique stores

71. Emerson football games and dances

72. First person in the new Girl Detective series

73. Having a long-term ghostwriter like Mildred Wirt Benson or Harriet Stratemeyer Adams

74. Creepy old attics

75. 75 years and still going strong!

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