We are soaked in sweat here at the NDRI.  Perchance it was the unbelievable number of complicated convergences that were met in the course of parsing ye olde The Clue of the Leaning Chimney.  Never too early in the day for a convergence or six, we always say. Honestly there is something both vaguely exciting [...]

Jumping Jesus on a stick!  We are both ashamed and ennobled by our tardy reporting of FACTS and FIGURES about yon young whippersnapper N.D.  She has beguiled us into believing that our work is of the UTMOST import and therefore people will wait in a trembling way for the next THRILLING instalment of STATISTICS about [...]

The Nancy Drew Research Institute (NDRI), bereft of a responsible Board of Directors, jacked of its pension funds by unscrupulous researchers, clinging to its very existence by the ragged nails of fate, would nonetheless like to take this time out to bestow its First Annual You Are Almost Like Nancy Award to Trisha who selflessly emailed the [...]

Okay mystery fans. We are spent here at the Institute. Our NDRI mascot, a lovely little albino gerbil, has been violently ill for the last 24 hours and we are all sixes and sevens as to whether to take her to the vet or just let this mysterious illness work its way out of its [...]

We want to say that nobody should visit mysterious ghost strewn caves wearing heels, pleated skirts, and clutching a purse. We want to say that. We also want to say that this is the first time that Nancy has ever taken a reward for a job well done – a Paul Revere bell at that. [...]

Okay. Things have been monkey strange here for the last few weeks. We had an important fiscal deadline here at the Nancy Drew Research Institute (NDRI), namely the turning over of the books to a professional external auditing company. It turns out that the man who was caught by Dr. Nancy Monkey in the middle [...]

Ladies! Ladies! Ladies! What need of you a smoky eye? A raccoon eye? Retinyl palmitates? A come hither stare or even a body made skeletal? All you need is Mystery Eye. It costs nothing, it leaves no chemical trace that will later morph into some unspeakable cancer of the face, and it works to draw [...]

There have been no messages of love, support, or personal shame posted on the Nancy Drew Research Institute’s much beleaguered plywood window proxies. That privilege has been reserved for the deserving corporate entities down the street whose business as usual maxim has short-lived those inspiring messages of hope which now molder in the transfer station [...]