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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20010128
Author:Ray, Robin

Nancy Drew: Message in the Haunted Mansion, Her Interactive, $30, ages 10 and up, CD-ROM for Windows

Three and a half stars

Nancy Drew, the girl detective, was originally the creation of Hardy Boys' mastermind Edward Stratemeyer, who commissioned a series of books about a girl detective, written under the name Carolyn Keene. That was in 1930, and Nancy has been around the block a few times since then. More books than one could count, plus TV and movie efforts (none of them particularly successful), have contributed to the long life of this popular female.

Since 1998, ...

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