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25 Fake Nancy Drew Book Covers That Are Even Better Than the Originals

By Mac McCann | October 8, 2019 | Updated on December 1, 2019 | Leave a Comment
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Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Where It Got Its Shoes

What’s that Nancy Drew? The Secret at Shadow Ranch was that crop circles aren’t created by aliens but just bored artists? Just like these fake book covers that parody the originals? Fascinating!

It turns out there’s more mysteries to solve, so the CW gave Nancy Drew her own new show on the CW. On October 9, you can tune in to see Kennedy McMann uncover a season’s worth of mysteries in Horseshoe Bay, Maine. Nancy will go head-to-ethereal-mist with ghosts and evildoers as she reminds us that that there’s more to be scared of in Maine that getting food poisoning from a lobster roll.

Nancy Drew Book Covers - Kennedy McMann on the CW
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Who Is Nancy Drew?

Nancy Drew is a fictional teenage detective and the title character of best-selling series of 175 books that were first published in 1930 and ghostwritten under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.

Between World War I and World War II, Americans were hungry for detective fiction. Cheap pulp fiction magazines and authors like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler delivered. Edward Stratemeyer saw that the genre might appeal to the YA market as well and tapped into America’s voracious appetite with the launch of the Hardy Boys series in the 1927.

Following its success, Stratemeyer launched the Nancy Drew series three years later in 1930. The series has since sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, well beyond Fifty Shades. You could say they took a spanking. Or that we need more coffee. Really, either.

Since there’s nothing we love more than a good procedural show — ok, and tequila — we collected these fake Nancy Drew book covers from Funny or Die and other sources to celebrate the launch of the new detective series. Pick up the real ones at your favorite independent bookstore or Amazon.

25 Fake Nancy Drew Book Covers

1. Don’t get him started on almonds.
(Read the original: The Thirteenth Pearl, 1979)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Man Protesting Avocados

2. We really hope that’s recycled toilet paper. Think of the planet!
(Read the original: The Clue of the Dancing Puppet, 1962)

 

3.  It had one job.
(Read the original: The Clue in the Crossword Cipher, 1967)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Frisbee

4. Ok, that’s it. You’re not driving anymore.
(Read the original: The Secret at Shadow Ranch, 1931) 
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - horse that always made eye contact

 

5. It’s so hard to tell Congressmen apart these days.
(Read the original: The Clue of the Broken Locket, 1934)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Creepy Guy Still Behind Us

 

6. It had lots of rough ideas.
(Read the original: The Witch Tree Symbol, 1955)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Interviewing a Tree

 

7. Not Again.
(Read the original: The Message in the Hollow Oak, 1935)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Stuck in a Tree with a Skull on My Birthday

 

8. Well, at least they’re not starting at 8am. Unlike Bob and Dave and their kitchen renovation that’s been going on since March.
(Read the original: The Sign of the Twisted Candles, 1933)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - The Neighbors

 

9. If only they were soundproof.
(Read the original: The Clue in the Crumbling Wall, 1945)

 

10. Except, on Wednesdays. Only Wednesdays.
(Read the original: The Mystery of the Tolling Bell, 1946)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Never Seen Me in Pink

 

11. Its Netflix special is coming any day now.
(Read the original: The Whispering Statue, 1937)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - The Statue That Talked

 

12. This littering problem has really gotten out of control.
(Read the original: Dangerous Games, 1991)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - What's That

 

13. Unlike the last one, which was made of glued together feathers. We’re never putting our dog Mr. Pringles in charge of making a ladder again.
(Read the original: The Clue of the Tapping Heels, 1939)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Now That's a Ladder

 

14. Please, call her a cougar.
(Read the original: The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion, 1941)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Made Out with the Paintings

15. It happened somewhere around the 15th season of The Bachelor.
(Read the original: The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes, 1964)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Lost Her Mind

 

16. Why they still publish these when the Internet exists is the real mystery.
(Read the original: The Secret of the Old Clock, 1930) 
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - The Quandry

 

17. Kohl’s. We’re guessing Kohl’s.
(Read the original: The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, 1954)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Where It Got Its Shoes

18. Florida Man, where have you taken us?!
(Read the original: (Read the original: Mystery of Crocodile Island, 1978)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Sick of Florida


19. Florida, we’re outta here. But not before we find out what she has to say.

(Read the original: Password to Larkspur Lane, 1933)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Gossip


20. Ah, the days before YouTube.

(Read the original: The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, 1954)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Learning Ballet from a Painting

 

21. At long last, we found them.
(Read the original: The Secret in the Old Attic, 1944)  
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Case of the Missing

 

22. And put them right where they belonged.
(Read the original: The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion, 1941)
Nancy Drew Fake Book Covers - Buried

 

23. Those bracelets didn’t age well.
(Read the original: The Message in the Hollow Oak, 1935)
Nancy Drew - Missing Livestrong Bracelets

 

24. It’s good practice for the family photo we’ll take later!
(Read the original: The Clue in the Old Stagecoach, 1960)
Nancy Drew - Everyone Look a Different Way

25. Seriously, how have you not figured out how to play by now?
(Read the original: The Ghost of Blackwood Hall, 1948)
Nancy Drew - Ghost Who Needed Piano Lessons

 

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Mac McCann
I’m Mac McCann, a social media expert and writer based in Austin, Texas.

I can be found on Twitter at @macmccanntx or at my site, Mac McCann.

I’ve written hundreds of articles on a wide variety of topics. My work has been published in more than a dozen publications, including The Dallas Morning News, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Times, Complex, The Charlotte Observer, Sun-Sentinel, The Austin American-Statesman, Reason, Austin Chronicle, Hawaii Tribune-Herald, Dallas Observer, OC Weekly, The La Crosse Tribune, The Intelligencer, The South Bend Tribune, Phoenix New Times, and more.
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