NANCY DREW

I was a huge Nancy Drew fan as a kid and would choose which books in the series to read based entirely on the creepiness of the cover image (didn't we all?!). I still own my childhood copies and these three are my favorites. I found MYSTERY AT LILAC INN on my grandmother's parlor bookshelf when I was about eleven, only to discover that it was actually my mother's back in the late 1940s, hence the retro style of illustration. MYSTERY AT THE SKI JUMP takes the cake for creeping me out the most. Hands with bulging veins aside, I still adore these covers. And Nancy Drew, of course!