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Would anyone have any book recs for mystery/detective series? More...polite Miss Marple-type mysteries rather than anything that uses the words "gritty," "real," "dark" or anything similar to describe it.

I love period mysteries (especially the 1930s) since there's just something so polite about murder back then. XD Of course, I did enjoy the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, as well as the Thursday Next series. (Those are far from "gritty" so it's probably no wonder.)

Bonus points if it's a female sleuth. Oh, Poirot is all right, I guess, but give me a Precious Ramotswe, a Harriet Vane or a Thursday Next any day. (I've decided that my old-spiration is Miss Marple. I'll take up knitting and solve crimes and drink tea. I might have to move to the English countryside though, since there seems to be a murder at an estate at least once a week, and I'm sure they'll all need solving.)

So does anyone know of anything I could try?

(P.S. You know what could be fairly awesome? A geared-for-adults series of Nancy Drew. One where she dumps Ned and hooks up with Frank Hardy, obviously.)

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You know what could be fairly awesome? A geared-for-adults series of Nancy Drew. One where she dumps Ned and hooks up with Frank Hardy, obviously.

Get to your library and see if they have Confessions of a Teen Sleuth by Chelsea Cain. It's a hysterical Nancy Drew parody, with appearances of almost any series character you can shake a stick at, such as Encyclopedia Brown, Cherry Ames, and Tom Swift.

XD That sounds fantastic! Unfortunately I just looked at my library's web site and they don't have that one.

Does your library have interlibrary loan?

I have no idea. I'll have to check into that!

"Confessions of a Teen Sleuth by Chelsea Cain. It's a hysterical Nancy Drew parody, with appearances of almost any series character you can shake a stick at, such as Encyclopedia Brown, Cherry Ames, and Tom Swift."

That sounds really amusing, I need to get my hands on it.