Girl Detective is a series replacing the long-running
Nancy Drew mysteries series, which had been running since 1930, first from
Grosset & Dunlap and latterly from
Simon & Schuster. Stories are written in first person narrative style with Nancy herself describing all the action, and feature updated and overhauled versions of the main Nancy Drew characters. In 2013, The series was ended and a new current series called Nancy Drew Diaries was launched.