There are 3 books in this "series": The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Case of the Good-for-Nothing Girlfriend, and the Ghost in the Closet. They're obviously a parody / pastiche of the Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and Cherry Ames series of books. As such, they're incredibly campy, overdone, and, quite frankly, rather annoying. Nancy, Cherry, Frank and Joe are impossibly naive and really quite stupid. Just like the originals, you may say. Well, yes, except that these are patently written for a more adult audience.
All the characters in these books are either homosexual, want to be homosexual, or are heterosexual solely for the purpose of generating the main characters. All of them. They exist in a bizarre world where it's perfectly normal to be homosexual, and where everyone is homosexual, only it's also not OK or normal and it's not talked about or admitted. Two of the main characters get married, for example, except one is pretending to be a man and everyone knows it. They're apparently legally married...or...not...I'm not really sure, actually.
In any case, even though I read all three of them, they didn't really work for me. The mysteries were OK, but were pretty much Hardy Boys level. The mixture of adult themes, adult behavior, and 8-year-old dialogue, "campiness" and writing were jarring, and got really annoying very fast. I didn't care for them.
2 out of 5.
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