When the lights suddenly go out, hold onto your diamonds for dear life. - Nancy Drew, The Mystery of Lilac Inn

Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.

Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.

I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.

She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!

Again time elapsed.

brushing her hair until it snapped with electricity