Sarasota, FL (PressExposure) August 13, 2010 -- NANCY DREW COMPUTER GAMES—that’s right, Nancy Drew, that indomitable girl sleuth—is at it again, solving mysteries (with your help!) on your own home computer.

Check it out now at http://www.NancyDrewComputerGames.com for insight into what she’s up to—over 20 interactive, mind-boggling mysteries—with the help of best friends Bess and George and erstwhile boyfriend Ned, always ready at the other end of her cell phone to offer moral support, suggestions, and a different spin on clues.

Sometimes, even the Hardy Boys step in to lend a hand.

The creation of Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate (book packaging), and the pseudonymous Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew has had countless incarnations since the 1930 debut of the fifty-cent blue books with the girl detective silhouette on the cover. Her hair has gone from blonde to auburn (Titian); her little blue roadster transformed to sporty convertible and environmentally sound hybrid; but her pluck, ingenuity, and unswerving search for justice remains unchanged.

Fearless in the face of danger, she rights wrongs and unravels tangled webs of destruction and deceit. For decades—the better part of a century—girls have aligned themselves with her forthright code of ethics and unquestionable curiosity as they morphed into womanhood.

Prominent women, role models themselves, often point to Nancy Drew as a positive influence in their lives, leading them to pursue careers outside the feminine box. The list includes Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Sonia Sotomayor; television journalist Barbara Walters; opera singer Beverly Sills; mystery authors Sara Paretsky and Nancy Pickard; scholar Carolyn Heilbrun; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; former First Lady Laura Bush; and Karen DeCrow, former president of NOW (National Organization for Women).

And Nancy herself proved a shape shifter with the times, appearing in books aimed at teens…and then preteens and younger. Entertainment Weekly ranked her seventeenth on its list of "The Top 20 Heroes," ahead of Batman, citing Nancy Drew as the "first female hero embraced by most little girls.”

She embraced television, the silver screen, the graphic novel, and now the new technology, with Nancy Drew Computer Games, a series of challenging clues, puzzles, victims and villains that sets girls (and even their still-curious mothers) on the trail of perilous adventure…and satisfying resolution.

Lucky for gamers, if they get it wrong and a building blows up, user-friendly technology gives them a second chance to put it all together.

Since the release of the initial Nancy Drew Computer Games—Secrets Can Kill (1998), Stay Tuned for Danger (1999), and Message in a Haunted Mansion

(2000)—the series has received praise and awards, a thumbs-up from parents and educators…not to mention the amateur sleuths themselves.

Created by Her Interactive, the computer games are colorful, fast-paced, and intuitive in design, following the familiar point-and-click-of-the-mouse to get to the bottom of the mystery. Most of the adventures cloak and educational experience in a fun-packed mystery adventure.

The Nancy Drew Computer Games immerse a fully animated Nancy (and you, the player) in worlds and experiences ranging from haunted mansions to spooky train rides, the height of Paris fashion to dude ranch jeans, caves to carousels, museums to boarding school…all challenging you to solve complex problems, racing against time to uncover secrets and right all wrongs.

And it’s as much fun for grownups as it is for their daughters. The recommended age range, ten to adult; but it’s probably the adults who’ll be more likely to turn to the available Game Hints and Tips and the Strategy and Solution Guides for individual Nancy Drew Computer Games.

And there’s a tutorial as well to get you started on the right foot, with an overview of the game features and settings and recommendations on where to start your quest for adventure.

The newest of the Nancy Drew Computer Games--#22: Trail of the Twister—takes Nancy to The Bahamas when Bess wins a free cruise only to be abducted within minutes of her arrival at the fabulous, but oddly populated, beach resort. Find out more about the girl’s exciting Bahamian adventure and their other interactive mystery sleuthing at http://www.NancyDrewComputerGames.com • Secrets Can Kill (PC 1998) • Stay Tuned for Danger (PC 1999) • Message in a Haunted Mansion (PC 2000) • Treasure in the Royal Tower (PC 2001) • The Final Scene (PC 2001) • Secret of the Scarlet Hand (PC 2002) • Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake (PC 2002) • The Haunted Carousel (PC 2003) • Danger on Deception Island (PC 2003) • The Secret of Shadow Ranch (PC 2004) • Curse of Blackmoor Manor (PC 2004) • Secret of the Old Clock (PC 2005) • Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon (PC 2005) • Danger By Design (PC 2006) • The Creature of Kapu Cave (PC 2006) • White Wolf of Icicle Creek (PC 2007) • Legend of the Crystal Skull (PC 2007) • The Phantom of Venice (PC 2008) • The Haunting of Castle Malloy (PC 2008) • Ransom of the Seven Ships (PC 2009) • Warnings at Waverly Academy (PC 2009) • Trail of the Twister (PC/Mac 2010) • Shadow at the Water's Edge (PC/Mac 2010)

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