Month: January 2026

Nancy Drew

painting of a blonde girl with blue eyes in a blue coat and blue hat holding a large clock in a forest

Nancy Drew is a sixteen year old girl who is the daughter of a very well known lawyer and former district attorney. She comes from money but is generally polite and well spoken. She frequently starts to sleuthing because of her rather sharp reasoning skills.

Nancy Drew has a sidekick in the form of her friend Helen Corning who is a more typical teenage girl than Nancy.

She’s often unassuming making folks underestimate her abilities as a detective.

Notes

  • Only the first four books from 1930 are public domain. The later books or the revisions of those books are not public domain.

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Scarface

Tony “Scarface” Guarino is a character based on Al Capone the Chicago crime boss. The crime thriller novel was written by Armitage Trail and was a smash hit, altho sadly the author died of a heart attack shortly after selling the film rights to the book.

The book was adapted into the 1932 film Scarface as well as the 1983 remake of said film which is probably the one people know about, the famous Al Pacino movie.

The book is in the public domain as the rights were never renewed in the US and in other countries it has long since lapsed in copyright due to Armitage’s premature death at only 28 in 1930.

Notes

The 1932 film will become public domain in 2028. The 1983 movie and original elements to it are of course not public domain.

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