I was chatting recently with a friend about the mystery books we'd read as kids - I had the Trixie Beldon series and she had Nancy Drew. I realised at the time that I'd never read a single Nancy Drew book ever, and they're supposed to be classics. Well, I've read one now... and it was okay. I can't say I was particularly delighted with it, but then I'm not ten years old anymore, so perhaps if I'd read it back then I would have been more enthused. Nancy herself is kind and intelligent, so that's something, but the story, sad to say, was just a little dull. I can't quite see how, seeing as she was kidnapped by robbers and locked in a closet for part of it, but still. A little dull it certainly was.

Now I know.