The Secret of the Women in Black Robes
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 12:49pm
What do Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor have in common?
Well, besides the obvious?
They were all young fans of one fictional teenage super-sleuth: Nancy Drew.
In a delightful New York Times article, Nancy Drew and the Secret of the 3 Black Robes, Mary Jo Murphy reports that all three women admired the young, courageous heroine:
It doesn’t take a big clue to deduce that there’s something between Supreme Court women and Nancy Drew of River Heights, Somewhere, U.S.A., the teenage star of a wholesome series of detective novels that have been in print in some version — dated and updated — since their inception in 1930.
What is it about the nice girl in "gumshoe pumps and sassy blue convertible"? Find out here.
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