DJ-100 model, Djonin
Ms N Nickerson. Ms
Even here, he can’t score.
Ms N Nickerson. Ms
Even here, he can’t score.
The ghost writer definitely read this and understood part of it.
I'll let you guess if this cliffhanger pays off
Nancy accused a bunch of people and run afoul of grumps but nothing's changed.
The 747 lead fell flat then IMMEDIATELY panned out
If you guessed Nancy is conveniently sat next to someone Linda knows, congratulations
Bess’s Mark huh.
Nancy’s friends got more interesting
Mark is some dude Bess is "in love" with
Oh.
I thought he was her mark
And there was some intrigue
Little of consequence happens on the flight, so that's fun
Hmmmmmmm
Maybe choose a different name for the children's book
Linda seems pretty hard to forget. She probably picks one passenger to bully every flight.
Enjoy the complimentary balloons at each table, counter, and underside of table
And the disguise is off
Nancy got the vital information that Linda was nervous
"There's also a camera, but I've been told it doesn't work"
That place is terrifying under a black light.
EAT AND FLY HOME
The '90s really began a couple years early with the arrival of hot pink plastic and turquoise clothes.
We got like four new sports teams, all tourquoise and purple.
The first time a baseball cap was worn backward, the tides shifted
Nancy's detective work is convenient eavesdropping
Is this more dockworker airport baggage handlers?
This isn't right. Grant should be regretting his life choices while someone screams about their toothbrush going missing
Time for a great plan
Ned's going to love this
They're just starting a bible study group.
See, it's not just me.
"This is something to tell the police! But I won't!"
Paul's convinced he's not a virgin anymore
Ned's going to ask how her trip to seattle was and get dumped.
GG, Paul.
GDG: Grant
Nancy, in thirty years he'll be a pick up artist.
And it's all your fault.
You gave him this unearned confidence.
Paul will masturbate himself blind before the next full moon
It's fine
Just conveniently wandering into situations
I decided to look up Ned Nickerson and he is the most “default create a character” man I have seen.
Flight 747, a Boeing 747, arriving at 7:47?
Nancy, just assuming that's the smuggler's mark
I mean, there's no other reason for those numbers to show up on a plane
When was the 747 first flown, anyway?
I get the feeling the author just learned what a jet was, and also just learned they are made in Seattle.
1969
Nice
Nice
Just psychically verifying these are genuine
Yeah when I was in Seattle I went to the museum where the first 747 is.
Gasp!
Who is funneling all these vases!
Then just walks out of the plane with the crate without a problem
Is... Nancy secretly a bodybuilder?
It’s going to be awkward when she learns she just intercepted a shipment for Seattle’s Asian Art Museum.
So this whole operation could have been foiled by a UPS driver
Ming vases are heavy, and having held jade figurines. That's impressive, Nancy.
Nancy has assumed Maxell is not in on it, but Talbot is
I really want her to be totally wrong.
Oh boy, here comes the gun.
I need that.
Maxell is a name that never gets applied to a villain. She'll be-
Oh, no. Maxell is in room 747. Because this book is dumb, that's important
I really want this to just be stuff bound for the Asian Art Museum
dang
Yes.
Yesssssssssss.
Anyone with object permanence could have cracked this
I can't believe handing all the evidence to a man I've barely talked to was bad
This entire case hinges on Rod being the Steve Buscemi character.
I don't think it matters if he does anything to Jen.
Confound you, Maxell!
But Bess is a real tragedy.
No matter how important she may be to science, however, Jess is still a plant.
And therefore is not protected by our human laws.
Now they have to climb up the 747 steps to the roof to stop Maxell from escaping in a helicopter hovering 747 feet off the ground
Rather than trying to stop the plane to save Bess and Jennifer, she forces herself on the flight
As you do.
"Diplomatic immunity!"
Nancy doesn’t really get how plane travel works.
But first, snack
Being a frozen 1940s woman
Ordinarily by now I'd say that I was being way too harsh on Jennifer and Bess.
But no.
By comparison, even after this display, Nancy's a super genius.
Where are they flying to? Because I refuse to accept that all the passengers went to sleep
Blake Maxell vs. Preston Talbot was, I need not remind you, the fencing duel to end all fencing duels at Wharton.
It's late at night on their way to Chicago.
A city... three hours from Seattle by plane?
Maybe four in a headwind?
Obviously they all went to sleep.
The Chicago Redeyes are a now defunct hockey team most notable for greatest number of deaths on ice in a single game.
Forced to go on with only 1 player, the final score of 74-7 is pro hockey's greate--GASP
Linda gives up the ghost. And now there's a customs agent/assassin
I've flown in and out of Chicago enough to know that you do not enter O'Hare unconscious
It's apparently very empty
I've had Malort and I disagree.
RICHARD DAWKINS! I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!
This is how he funded his biology science studies!
STEALING BECAUSE WITHOUT GOD HE KNOWS NO MORALITY.
A perfect trap
I'm pretty sure that whatever you're trying to escape, crashing an airliner is going to make your problems a thousand times worse.
Because there will certainly not be an investigation into this PLANE BOMB
"And now, we will all watch 'Transformers 2'."
"YOU MONSTERS!"
In the Nancy Drew universe the only investigative authority is Nancy Drew.
When she's dead, everyone is free.
NOT THE NEWSPAPERS! THE HUMANITY
"MY SUDOKU!"
Q Anon makes more sense when you consider all those boomers grew up reading these mysteries.
Well, crisis averted
97 people died so Nancy Drew could narc some art smugglers.
"Nothing to worry about folks. that was actually a deliberate nosedive because a bomb has exploded under your feet."
I'm sure the Communist Chinese will reward Nancy for saving their cultural heritage.
"By the way, if you look out the right side of the plane, you can see the people that were in the left side of the plane."
Woo, that was close
“Puget Sound airport”?
Listen asshole
It’s called SeaTac and no one likes it but still
Nancy lives in an alternate universe though.
Fire from a bomb? How unexpected
The plane fortunately only crushed a family of deer and a drunk who was planning to say he was deer hunting
This bomb was only planted so the story could wrap up back in Seattle were all our castmembers are.
Just terrific
The firemen are in on it
They just detonated the evidence
"Too much paperwork! Light this sumbitch up!"
And now there's no proof that anything happened except the word of Nancy Drew.
That's good, I would have hated seeing the criminal apprehended
The police?! Who called them? Nancy's got this under control.
Wait, wait, wait.
oh wait, sean did
Seattle has police?
“Damn it Nancy we called you in so we didn’t have to talk to SPD”
"It's just that simple, kids. Try it yourselves!"
I'm pretty sure the evidence suggests Seattle doesn't have police.
In the 1980s, was it that easy?
WTO was going to happen in ten years.
I feel like that's plausible.
I don't think they started scanning checked baggage until after 9/11
Sure, wiretapping. Why not
Linda whipped a rock through an airport window? Lady's got an arm on her
I'm just disappointed they put a bomb on the plane and didn't try to reroute to Cuba.
The movies lied to me.
Thought that was the 70s
Maybe?
They did because of Lockerbie.
My only actual point of reference is a Monty Python sketch.
Detective Haggarty is getting too cliche for this shit
Gotta wrap up the Horny Paul storyline
No, Nancy. DON'T LET HIM DOWN.
YOU HAVE MURDERED AT LEAST THREE WOMEN.
THEIR BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS
Smooth
Nancy, just tell Paul his kiss made you gay
Must have infuriated Maxell to know how many dirty phonecalls Talbot was making on the company dime and B-Max couldn't do a thing about it without revealing his scheme.
Ordinarily, I would tell her that Paul is a step up from Ned.
But I'm pretty sure Ned has had more than one kiss before.
Ehhh
Yea
And also isn't a murderer.
Paul is definitely now a murderer.
Nancy's going to have to dodge this guy she kissed who lives 3000 miles away.
She gets to fly away, but all the women who reject him now?
They have to deal with him forever.
Then Nancy just leaves after telling that to Paul
See?
...man, now I'm starting to think Paul's inevitable rampage is kind of justified.
I didn't expect her to pull that.
I can't imagine how crushing it must be to be too dumb to be Nancy Drew's boyfriend.
The End
Well, that was madness.
We did it!
Great job everyone!
Gellaho, as always you are are the bravest of us all.
Thanks again, @gellaho !
This cover is just disintegrating
Honestly, I was kind of joking about Paul becoming a pick-up-artist or murderer.
Ned on her front porch like a dog you forgot to let in before you left the house.
Disintegrating like Paul's grip on reality
It's nice to know they went with that.
Thank you for brightening our lives, Gellaho.
The broom's straw fell out.
And he realized it wasn't hair.
These strawberry-blonde brooms are all alike.
That concludes this edition of The Book Cage for the Ladies
Ladies! What did you think of this?
Thanks again, Gellaho.
Huh. I didn’t think Ned touched her
She's not talking about Ned.
She's talking about her pet cocker spaniel.
There was a lot of kissing in the comedy club mystery
I choose to declare that non-canon.
And Nancy getting sexual thrills from clues
Because of that.
Not much of that here