It's book #50 - - time to celebrate our half-tennial! But before talking about Nancy Drew & The Double Jinx Mystery, Karen wants to be a psychic as anxiety treatment, Kelly wants the Goldilocks amount of information, and we need your super sleuth recs! Also, Karen has amazing personal banter (check out her crochet skills @NevermoreKnots), and Kelly is in the midst of autumnal joy. We learn about the etymology of the word "jinx", Nancy hunts down Slick Fingers O'Mayley with to her clever forensic artistry skills, Merv Marvel is a Joker-style leaper, there's a Robin Cook style outbreak, there's a last-minute barn cult, and Nancy can identify a land mine at a great distance with high accuracy.

Recommendations:
'Salem's Lot on Max
If I Stopped Haunting You (by Colby Wilkins)

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Whelp, I guess it’s time to discuss Nancy Drew & the Secret of Mirror Bay. If we have to. First, would you rather have a treehouse lair or a bunker? We get an email from Dr. Quicksand! Karen is in a season of tears, and Kelly has a bucket of margs. Flashlight arms returns, George uses judo early and often, Mansplainer Matt makes his entrance, and has anyone ever heard of a cola stop?

Rated 5.5 out of 12 gilded carriages

Recommendations:

• A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston
• “Nobody Wants This” on Netflix (PG-13)

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In the our kickoff of Season 4, we delve into Nancy Drew & the Crooked Banister! Kelly wants a robot that will rub her back. Karen wants a robot that provides a “spontaneous bring”. We are both big Robby the Robot fans, we loved the cool clues but hated they went nowhere, and we love a flaming moat but hate a loose birch tree bridge. Also - Rawley totally faked his own death right?

Rated 9.25 out of 12 poisonous paintings

Recommendations:

• Here One Moment, by Lianne Moriarty
• Vanishing in the Haight, by Max Tomlinson
• Dead Wake, by Erik Larson
• Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman

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In the Season 3 Finale, we get to go to Turkey with the Clue Crew –— Karen thought it was sassy, and Kelly thought it was meh but full of derring-do. We also discuss our theories on doppelgängers, our summer dreams, and how much we want to go to the Grand Bazaar and the Basilica Cistern. Some thoughts to ponder: Would you buy a life insurance policy from Ned Nickerson? Would you have known Aisha was the mannequin? Should locksmiths and librarians have a Hippocratic oath?

Rated 7 out of 12 deadly waterwheels.

Recommendations:

• Loot - Apple TV (Maya Rudolph)
• People to Follow - Olivia Worley

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In episode 65 of It's A Clue, we discover our new favorite book, Nancy Drew & the Invisible Intruder! Helen is BACK, and The Clue Crew teams up with a pack of married couples to investigate, like, five different hauntings and sea-shell thefts. Rita has ESP, Bess loves Dave, George has amazing illustrated hair, Ned is the most kidnappable boy ever, and Nancy adds some soft skills to her resume. Plus, ring-around-the diplodocus skeleton is a thing that occurs.

Rated 12 out of 12 surveillance stingrays.

Recommendations:

• On the Bricks by Penni Jones
• Funny Story by Emily Henry

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In Episode 64, we talk about Nancy Drew and the Spider Sapphire Mystery! But first: Karen is moving into her hammock, Kelly is off to the Space Needle, and we learn a new vocab word: ossicones! Giraffes aside, Ned and George get 'napped, Gwen gets reformed and needs her own book, the Emerson guys get in a "dust-em-up" and lose horribly, and Nancy sings the amnesia right outta' someone. We both want to go to Africa after reading this book, which you probably will too - caveat being, you've gotta do it Nancy Style with full amenities.

Rated 8.5 / 12 deadly suitcases

Recommendations:

• Palm Royale on Apple TV+
• Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

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In this Super Sleuth episode, we talk about “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” - aka, the first in the series about our second favorite girl detective of all time, Flavia de Luce. Karen gives us some great background on author Alan Bradley and how this book came to be. Then we dig into poison lipstick, the love of libraries, priceless stamps, the need for a Clue Crew, and how Nancy and Flavia overlap (and don’t) in the Venn Diagram of Sleuths.

In other news, Karen wants a tertiary understanding of everything in the universe, Kelly wants to visit The Poison Garden, and Karen’s mind is blown by a burning question. Don’t forget - kick ‘em in the Casanovas!

Rated 11.75 poisonous lipsticks

Recommendations:
“Murder in New York” (Netflix)
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

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In episode 62, we "dig" (get it?) into Nancy Drew & The Clue in the Crossword Cipher. First, we discuss extreme weather events IRL, read a letter from Eloise, talk about raver dolls and cryptid fests, and get a thorough history lesson about the Nazca Lines! Then, we go along with the Clue Crew on a Succession-worthy all-expenses paid trip to South America where Nancy & Co:

• almost get sucked from an airplane
• dig up a very important archaeological site
• find a mummy and a treasure
• and do lots of judo!

Rated 6.5 out of 12 Parachutists

Next up - a TBD super sleuth mystery!

Recommendations:
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne PhD
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

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