Her Interactive

So, October brought one of the best games Her Interactive has made, The Labyrinth Of Lies. It was phenomenal. You can buy it here. Maybe Sammy Sleuth will do a review on it?

In 3 days brings Thanksgiving, which means Black Friday is directly after. It's ironic how we spend a day being thankful for everything we have and the day after we spend money on really cheap things in mobs. People get killed sometimes. I advise you to do your shopping online. Like say at Her Interactive. They are having a Black Friday sale, all games, digital and physical, 50% off. The code hasn't been released yet, But I'm willing to bet it will be something like BlackFriday14.

In other (sad) news, Nancy's longtime voice actor, Lani Minella, is no longer going to be working at Her after Sea of Darkness, the 32nd game. Her has not yet found a new person to voice Nancy.

Her has Christmas (if you celebrate it) shipping dates! Order by these dates and you will be good to go.

-Samantha Quick

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Book Review Lateness

So, for awhile I was doing book reviews on all of the Nancy Drew books, but I became busy and stopped on #11, The Clue of The Broken Locket. I am in the middle of book #12, The Message In The Hollow Oak. There are 2 of them, and both are quite different. There is not a single thing the same in the books except the title. Every moment I have free, I try reading a little of it so I can post a review soon. I have also been branching out to some new series, like The Hunger Games, The Heroes Of Olympus,The Morality Doctrine, etc. I also read some solitary books, like The Fault In Our Stars. I want to read Paper Towns and The Maze Runner series too. I That's also part of the reason I haven't been reading Nancy Drew as much. I've been reading other things. If you have any suggestions, leave a comment on one of my instagram posts.

Sorry about the book reviews though! I'll try to catch up. Should I put reviews on the other books I've read here too? Again, leave comments on my IG page because comments are disabled on my blog for privacy reasons.

-Samantha Quick

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Hello! I am SO sorry about not posting in 2 months! I have been very busy and haven't had time to post. I have been posting more on my Instagram, nancydrew_old_fashioned, but not very often, due to the busy factor. Tonight I will probably be making quite a few posts; so stay tuned!(For Danger ;) I'm sorry, I had too.)

-Samantha Quick

Nancy Drew #11: The Clue of The Broken Locket

Here is my review for Nancy Drew mystery #11, The Clue of The Broken Locket.

  The book starts out like this: Nancy comes down to the breakfast table and sees a key next to her plate. She asks Carson Drew, Her Criminal Lawyer father, tells her it is the key to a cottage which she is to open up for a girl named Cecily Curtis, in place of a Mr. Winch because he was scared of something. Nancy is accompanied by Bess Marvin and George Fayne. It is a two day trip,in which they run into a strange, red haired girl at a resturant who is having trouble with her apparent fiancé, over a iron bird and a lawsuit. When they finish their food, Bess says she lost her earring and knows exactly where it is. Before their food came, they took a walk through the forrest where they overheard the young couple, they had walked over a rickety old bridge where Bess tripped. The go there and Nancy sees it at the bottom of the bank. Because te bridge doesn't look sturdy enough, Bess stays on ground. George holds Nancy's feet while Nancy hangs over the edge. Just as she grabs the earring, the red haired girl dashes across and the bridge collapses. They rescue her and themselves and continue on. When they get there, all the townsfolk insist on the being careful, or better yet, not going because it's no place for 3 teenage girls to go with all the scary stuff going on. Nancy promises they will be careful, and they head down to the cottage to wait for the renter.  When the Cecily finally gets there, it's the red headed girl from earlier that day!

Sorry that was so long. Anyway, I would give this book a 8/10 because it just isn't one of Nancy's better mysteries. There are too many coincidences, A police chief embarrasses Nancy and just really doesn't listen to what she says because she is a girl, and at the time the book was written, boys were superior to girls. The rest was good though. Ned, Burt and Dave show up, and a singer they get to know well, and quite a mystery! I would probably not suggest this to you off the top of my head, but if you like mysteries by the lake, like The Secret of mirror Bay, then you will like this one.

- Samantha Quick

My Koko Kringle Bar!

A while back, I found a link to print your own Koko Kringle bar wrapper ( http://herinteractive-amateursleuth.blogspot.com/2009/11/koko-kringles.html)

I shrunk it down, and here is my Koko Kringle bar!

Also, I went to Goodwill a couple weeks ago, and keep meaning to post about my find! I bought 14 Nancy Drew books for 69 cents a piece! Here is a list of the books I got. The one's with a ! in front of them are the older ones.

#7 The Clue In The Diary
#10 Password To Larkspur Lane
#16 The Clue of The Tapping Heels
#19 The Quest of The Missing Map
!#20 The Clue In The Jewel Box
!#23 Mystery of The Tolling Bell
#30 Clue of The Velvet Mask
!#31 *** The Ringmaster's Secret
!#33 The Witch Tree Symbol
#35 The Haunted Showboat
#36 The Secret of The Golden Pavilion
#38 The Mystery of The Fire Dragon
#45 The Spider Sapphire Mystery

*** I got two copies of The Ringmaster's Secret, one old, one new.

Here are the links to the pictures.
The Mystery of The Tolling Bell
The Clue In The Jewel Box
The Witch Tree Symbol
The Ringmaster's Secret

  Next, I will be writing my review on The Clue of The Broken Locket, so stay tuned ( for danger ) =)
- Samantha Quick

Reviews

Hello! So sorry I haven't been on lately. I was sick. Anyway, I will be making a couple of posts today  and tomorrow so Yay!

For my Hardy Boys reviews, I was given the ok; so when I finish the Nancy Drew series, that's what I will do. While I'm on the topic of reviews, I have a small problem. Book number 12, The Message In The Hollow Oak has two different versions that I own! I will be doing the edited version first, then the older one from when my grandma was a kid.
 Also on the topic of reviews, Sammy Sleuth will be doing Nancy Drew game reviews when she has time, because she is in school. They won't be as often as my reviews.

Here is last weeks weekend puzzle answer:
"As for the weekend puzzle, this one was a semaphore (flag) code. Decoded it says “Phlegethon River” which refers to… well… I’ll let you research that. " - Little Jackalope ( Highlight the blank space to see the answer)

Here is this weekend's puzzle:

"Here’s your weekend puzzle! Hope you like codes and ciphers….! The key is Labyrinth of Lies.

"LItm, Z'u vgac mlbw Isetc uill" -Little Jackalope

Tomorrow, I will be posting my review for The Clue of The Broken Locket, and two little things I found/created. It would've been today, but I started a Monopoly Marathon with the neighbors and got sidetracked. Sorry. =)

- Samantha Quick

Book Reviews

Hello! I have been thinking, and I have to ask Sammy Sleuth first before I confirm this, but when I finish reading the Nancy Drew series, I would like to read the Hardy Boys series and do reviews on them. I just don't know yet because 1. I have to ask Sam, 2. This is a Nancy Drew blog, not book blog,( Which would be AWESOME because I would love to do reviews on so many books!!) 3. I may not have time to do reviews as often because of everything else going on; but that would probably be best seeing as this is a Nancy Drew blog. Anyway, it was just an idea.

-Samantha Quick