Editing Nancy Drew (section)

== Books ==
{{main|List of Nancy Drew books{{!}}List of ''Nancy Drew'' books}}
The longest-running series of books to feature Nancy Drew is the original Nancy Drew series, whose 175 volumes were published from 1930 to 2003. Nancy also appeared in 124 titles in ''The Nancy Drew Files'' and became the heroine of the ''Diaries'' series. Various other series feature the character, such as the ''[[Nancy Drew Notebooks]]'' and ''[[Nancy Drew on Campus]]''. While Nancy Drew is the central character in each series, continuity is preserved only within one series, not between them all; for example, in concurrently published titles in the ''Nancy Drew'' series and the ''Nancy Drew on Campus'' series, Nancy is respectively dating her boyfriend Ned Nickerson and broken up with Ned Nickerson.

The two exceptions are the series ''Super Mystery'' (also called ''A Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super Mystery''), which ran concurrently with the ''Files'' and shares continuity with those stories and the then-running ''Hardy Boys Casefiles'', and in 2007, a new ''A Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super Mystery'' series shared continuity with the ''Girl Detective'' series.

''Nancy Drew Diaries'' started in 2013. This is a reboot of the ''Nancy Drew: Girl Detective'' series. The series is "a classic Nancy Drew with her modern twist". While similar to the ''Nancy Drew Girl Detective'' series, this series includes situations and problems typical in young adult [[tween]] books. The mystery element is not always the main focus of the characters, and often, Nancy states she is avoiding mysteries or "on a break" from sleuthing.

Nancy often acts timid and scared; in book #16, ''The Haunting on Heliotrope Lane'', she says she is glad she "hasn't peed herself from being scared". This Nancy does not navigate the world of adults like previous versions of the character. The first-person narration reveals a juvenile voice with a passive role in the action and a lack of motivation in solving mysteries.

In book #12, ''The Sign in the Smoke'', Nancy does not solve the mystery; a secondary character comes up with the solution. In several books, Nancy stumbles upon the solution to the "mystery" and acts amazed at the reveal. This is in contrast to the setup of the previous Nancy Drew series. Attempts to make Nancy's character more modern and less perfect have resulted in a confusing and often conflicting representation of the iconic Nancy Drew character.

=== International publications ===
The main ''Nancy Drew'' series, ''The Nancy Drew Files'', and the ''Girl Detective'' books have been translated into a number of languages besides English. Estimates vary from between 14 and 25 languages.<ref>Plunkett-Powell (1993), 160.</ref><ref name="Fox">Shangraw Fox.</ref> Nancy Drew books have been published in many European countries (especially in [[Nordic countries]] and France) as well as in Latin America and Asia. The character of Nancy Drew seems to be more popular in some countries than others. Nancy Drew books have been in print in Norway since 1941 (the first country outside the United States<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nancydrewworld.com/norwegian.html | title = Around the World with Nancy Drew&nbsp;– Norway | publisher = Nancydrewworld.com |date=December 21, 2001 |access-date=September 23, 2012}}</ref>), in Denmark since 1958, in France since 1955,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.carolinequine.com/pages/Presentation_de_la_serie_Alice-504890.html|title=Présentation de la série &quot;Alice&quot;|first=Anne|last=Haunyme|website=Alice Roy ou Nancy Drew, et autres détectives...|access-date=Sep 27, 2020|archive-date=October 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024135926/http://www.carolinequine.com/pages/Presentation_de_la_serie_Alice-504890.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and in Italy since 1970 by [[Arnoldo Mondadori Editore]]. Other countries, such as [[Estonia]], have only recently{{When|date=March 2024}} begun printing Nancy Drew books.<ref name="Fox" />

Nancy's name is often changed in translated editions: in France, she is known as Alice Roy; in Sweden, as Kitty Drew; in Finland, as Paula Drew;<ref name="Fox" /> and in Norway, the book series has the name of ''Frøken Detektiv'' (''Miss Detective''), though the heroine's name is still Nancy Drew inside the books.<ref>Skjønsberg (1994), 72.</ref> In Germany, Nancy is a German law student named Susanne Langen. [[George Fayne]]'s name is even more frequently changed, to Georgia, Joyce, Kitty, or Marion.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}} Cover art and series order is often changed as well, and in many countries, only a limited number of Drew books are available in translation.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}