Mildred Benson

... came from one man who started this sort of syndicate, this corporation that the, the man, I forgot his name, it's been so long since I've read the, the research, he would come up with the ideas, and then he would hire writers to write them out.

And he came up with Nancy Drew, and hi- passed it on to one of his staff writers, a woman named Millie Benson, and she wrote, I believe, the first 30 books from the 1930s.

And they're about twice as long as the ones most people are familiar with.

If you go to a bookstore now and buy this Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, it's, it's a shiny yellow book, yellow spine.

Nancy is blonde instead of a redhead, and she's 16 instead of 18, and she's a bit more of a troublemaker instead of a rule follower than she is in the, in the yellow spine books.

So they were, they were rewritten and kind of shortened and rewritten in the 1950s and '60s.

But yeah, Millie Benson was, was a really interesting woman, incredibly smart, well-educated.

If I remember, she was like a, a trick diver, and I think she, she tried to, she learned how to fly a plane early on.

A little bit morbid, but maybe it was their way of making a nod to Harriet.

There's definitely been some nods to Millie, Mildred Wirt Benson.

I think there was a Millie's Aviation poster in Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, so I guess it's only fair that Harriet gets a nod here and there too.

There's also some talk about Oliver Cromwell, who was a member of Parliament, so he was a real person alluded to in this game.