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Nancy Drew 11: The Clue of the Broken Locket | Carolyn Keene

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6. A #LittenDetective posed the question about River Height's location, as at least for the 1965 edition the mystery takes place in Maryland.

Later Nancy Drew novels allude to River Heights being located near Chicago, and older novels suggest a Midwest location (according to a source I read). It seems a pretty far drive for Carson to send Nancy to ready a cabin in 1965!

Any thoughts on location? #NancyDrewBR

Ruthiella Is this the first time Nancy has been out of state since Arizona and The Secret of Shadow Ranch? 🤔 I think In Nancy‘s Mysterious Letter, someone is flying to NYC, where makes more sense if River Heights is near Chicago. Could be a continuity error, like with the mention of Ned before Nancy actually officially meets him. 4mo

DGRachel It‘s a 7 hour drive from where I live to Baltimore, so I was confused by this, too. I thought River Heights was near Chicago, and I cannot see Nancy driving 10+ hours straight through. I figured someone just really wanted to set the book in Maryland and didn‘t think about Nancy‘s starting point. It usually feels like these books could take place nearly anywhere, the locations are so poorly drawn. 4mo

jlhammar I also always thought that River Heights was supposed to be near Chicago. Quite the drive! 4mo

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Bookwormjillk I always thought Chicago too! 4mo

kspenmoll I had just thought somewhere in the Midwest where wholesome Nancy lived. 4mo

MariaW I never gave it any thought because no direct directions or indications of the place where given. But I do not live in the US. To me it always sounded like the places the mysteries happened were somewhat nearby Rived Heights - sometimes closer sometimes further away. It is a first time that a name was mentioned that is an actual city. 4mo

CogsOfEncouragement Continuity errors tend to be a problem in series like this one with multiple authors. Comic books are notorious for this too. I find it interesting that there was not a person at the helm with notes of certain things to aide the incoming authors. It seems it was not a priority.

I had questions about this drive too ( in chap 1 they did stay in a motel one night on the way) but made a choice to shrug it off and enjoy the adventure for what it is. 4mo

DGRachel @CogsOfEncouragement I missed the motel stay. That makes my brain far less itchy. 4mo

DebinHawaii I gave up on where River Heights is supposed to be. For some reason I always thought upstate New York but I was a Trixie Belden reader before Nancy Drew so I probably transferred the location from that series! 🤷🏻‍♀️ 4mo

mrp27 I always felt River Heights was east coast, near NY but not in any specific place. I really don‘t give it too much thought though. 4mo

dabbe @CogsOfEncouragement Agree 💯. If the varied writers can keep saying in every book that Nancy is titian-haired, George is boyish with short hair, and Bess is blonde and always plump (that one always pisses me off), why can't they get the setting straight? 🤣 3mo

Roary47 I also picture the East Coast somewhere. 3mo

kwmg40 Like @DebinHawaii, I too had imagined River Heights as being in upstate New York. However, being a Canadian, my grasp of US geography is somewhat weak, though I've visited a number of the northeastern states. 3mo

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