I’ve enjoyed re-reading all of my old yellow Nancy Drews and wondering about what sort of re-writes the newer versions are going through but I have to say that I think I’m most interested to see what fixes might be done to The Haunted Showboat.
Besides the fact that Nancy’s new yellow convertible had a bomb planted that she and George and Bess could hear ticking from the dash while driving… and the acid poured on the “rear mechanism” that caused the whole car to disintegrate the day after she received it as a gift from her father… and the stereotypical portrayal of people named “Mammy Matilda, Pappy Cole and Uncle Rufus”, this poor little book is set in New Orleans and there’s a wonderful long paragraph about how New Orleans used to have a flooding problem until the brilliant United States Corp of Engineers solved the problem by diverting flood water into Lake Pontchartrain. No more flooding!
Ugh.