Nancy Drew meets some Little Green Men.

I was flipping through the Fall Simon & Schuster catalog last night when I came across this:

Nancy Drew: Girl Detective
#21 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

Nancy, Bess, and George head to Brody's Junction, Vermont, to fly down the slopes. Little do they realize they're in for flying saucers! Hundreds of tourists have invaded the town to watch the purported UFO sightings, which are odd enough. Odder still are reports of townspeople being abducted and the strange clues that seem to point to little green men as the culprits. Nancy's mantra, though, is "innocent until proven guilty," and she's hoping to have a close encounter with some hard facts before the town spins out of control.

A couple of things:

A)  I'm not usually attracted to the new ND mysteries, but this plot might be too awesome for me to pass up.

B)  I really like the cover.

C)  Since when is Nancy's mantra "innocent until proven guilty"?  I thought it was more "he's Rude and wearing a Tacky Suit and therefore must be Up To No Good". 

Comments

[Gail]

Oh, I don't care for this cover at all. It could be the cover of any teen girl book. (Except for the part that says "Nancy Drew," of course). But the cover on The Secret of Red Gate Farm can only be a Nancy Drew book. You don't need to see her name to know the book is about her.

[Leila]

I'm glad that they use the artwork to differentiate the new books from the original series, though. And the older looking clips of Nancy's face combined with the more modern photo-mock up of the UFO work for me, somehow.

[Marianne]

Is it just me or does this sound more like a Scooby Doo plot?

[Leila]

Marianne, I think you're right.

Maybe that's why I kind of want to read it.