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The Case Of the Not-So-Nice Nurse: A Nancy Clue and Cherry Aimless Mystery
 
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The Case Of the Not-So-Nice Nurse: A Nancy Clue and Cherry Aimless Mystery (Paperback)

by Mabel Maney (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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In this artful, hilarious send-up of girls' fiction of the past, innocent, naive recent nursing school graduate Cherry Aimless is drawn into pursuing a "case" when a beautiful patient in her psych ward mysteriously disappears after a visit by a nun. Cherry seeks the aid of forthright, courageous Nancy Clue, whose attorney-father has lately been done in by his housekeeper of 30 years. What is the clue in the book the missing patient gave Cherry? What happened to the conventful of nuns, presumed kidnapped, from which the visiting sister came? Where is Aunt Gertrude? Will our heroines escape the midnight prowler? the ticking time-bomb? And then there's the murder: will goody-good Cherry and her chums triumph? You bet, but along the way guileless Cherry has many peculiar things happen to her, all made shriekingly funny by her inability to distinguish drag queens and dykes from ordinary mortals. Many a fan of the (Cherry) Ames and (Nancy) Drew series will be delighted by this wonderfully wry parody--and rewarded by a not-bad mystery, too. Marie Kuda --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Holiday reading, Sep 8 2003
By Cate (Australia) - See all my reviews
Light-weight, no-thought-required fun. A better read than the Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Lite Read, Feb 8 2000
By D. Jones "Dan-X !" (Denton, Texas) - See all my reviews
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If you're the type who typically knocks out a novel in a night or two then you'll probably enjoy this book. It's too silly to plod through if it generally takes you more time than that to get through a story though. I personally felt that the book would have been a lot better if the author had only alluded to the characters' sexuality by using inuendo and symbolism instead of coming right out and revealing almost all the characters to be queer. I think a tongue-in-cheek approach would have made for a much funnier parody of the 50s kids sleuth genre. I guess that by making all the characters openly gay in a story that's set in the fifties or early sixties the author was trying to make some point but I just didn't really get it I suppose. (Don't get me wrong. I'm all for being openly gay in real life but just not in this one particular story.) Another thing that I found mildly irksome was that it's supposed to be a "Nancy Clue Mystery". Yet the character of Nancy Clue doesn't come in until at least halfway through the book and is really only a supporting character. Finally, I think the author could also have benefitted by keeping the book about the same length as a real Nancy Drew mystery. At over 200 pages with moderately small print this book was just too long for its subject matter. However, I did find the book to be entertaining enough to possibly read future installments in the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious! I couldn't put it down., Oct 5 1999
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Mabel Maney is a legend! All the Nancy Clue mysterious are so enjoyable to read and are all so camp. All my friends keep borrowing my books now. It's really annoying because I want to re-read and re-read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars She could make me a stalker!
I read this book a few years ago after seeing an article about Maney in the SF Bay Times. I thought she was kinda cute so I bought her book. Read more
Published on Jun 6 1999 by DisinterU@aol.com (Jennifer Hill)

4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, fun read
I loved Nancy Drew mysteries as a kid because they were about girls getting out and doing it for themselves (and, come on, her best chum is a tomboy named George!). Read more
Published on Mar 29 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars You've GOT to read it!
I remember reading TOO many Nancy DREW books when I was a young girl. Now that I'm all grown up, have a cynical mind and like my humor sarcastic I read Nancy CLUE!! Read more
Published on April 15 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it aloud with someone you love!
This is one of the funniest works of lesbian fiction I have ever read. I could not stop laughing. I've loaned it to friends and given it as a gift. Read more
Published on Mar 3 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!
This is a hilarious take off of the Nancy Drew mysteries. Mabel Maney brings Nancy and Cherry to life in the 90's. Read more
Published on Dec 21 1997 by Sue Tennyson

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