2 There is one case that even Nancy Drew can't solve: the case of the missing creator. Nancy Drew's author, Carolyn Keene, was not quite J.K. Rowling, but she was plenty popular back in her day. Keene received and answered a plethora of fan mail, according to Melanie Rehak, author of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. Rehak also says Keene was so well known that she was asked to join the Authors Guild and was listed by Who's Who in America. Thing is, she wasn't real. The original installments in the Nancy Drew book series were written and edited by various employees of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Most of the books were penned by Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Stratemeyer, the daughter of the syndicate's founder, Edward Stratemeyer. But the two battled over who should get credit for Nancy's development. "Both Harriet and Mildred each honestly felt that she had made the character the success that she was," Rehak says. "They had a long-standing disagreement, which their families have continued throughthe present day, about who was really responsible for the creation of this character."

3 Nancy Drew's real creator did not have a daughter who dated Indiana Jones. Because, you see, Indiana Jones is not real. In an episode of the TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, young Indy visited Thomas Edison's lab with his girlfriend - Nancy Stratemeyer. "People always said that she was one of Edward Stratemeyer's daughters or one of his daughter's daughters," Rehak says. "But she was not real." So, you had a fictional character dating the fictitious daughter of the real-life creator of a fictional character. Go figure.