This fanlisting is for the author Mabel Maney and her four books. The Nancy Clue books are part parody and camp with great storylines and fun characters who journey from San Francisco across the U.S. to River Depths, Illinois, "Home of Girl Detective Nancy Clue," through three books.  The two Jane Bond books follow 007's sister Jane in a more modern storyline.

The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse: Mabel Maney's hilarious lesbian parody of Nancy Drew. When Cherry Aimless lands in the Castro in search of Nancy Clue and a  flock of missing nuns, the earnestly whitegirl '50s meet the oh-so-queer '90s in a delightful satire of both girl detective novels and lesbian romantic fiction.

The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend: Wedding bells make way for the judge's gavel when Nancy Clue takes Cherry Aimless R.N. home to River Depths, Illinois, to rescue beloved housekeeper Hannah Gruel, who has been accused of murdering famous attorney Carson Clue! When a Navy Nurse turns up, polishing her brass buttons at Nancy's door, Cherry makes a few choice accusations of her own. Is there any hope for romance? Join Cherry Aimless and Nancy Clue and their chums for yet another gay adventure!

A Ghost in the Closet: The famous boy detectives The Hardly Boys join forces with Nancy Clue and Cherry Aimless, R.N. to solve the mystery of the missing Hardly parents -- who have been kidnapped while on a mission of national security! While the boys goes underground to discover caverns filled with evil scientists and G-men, Nancy and Cherry go undercover in the twisted Dr. Fraud's River Depths Sanitarium, where Nancy discovers evidence about a missing parent of her own. More importantly, will Nancy ever win back Cherry's love?

 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: Mabel Maney's giddy and outrageous spoof of the Bond books ousts the main character himself. As her story opens, James has been locked away in a Swiss sanitarium, having at last "lost his nerve." The British Secret Service plots to recruit his bookish, unambitious lesbian twin sister, Jane, hoping that in disguise, she will be a convincing stand-in for the world-famous agent. Although thrilled by the tailored suit the government provides, Jane is a reluctant spy. What she doesn't know is that her new girlfriend, Bridget, ostensibly a cosmetic sales girl, is in fact a feminist counterspy struggling to foil a fascist scheme to put the aging Duke and Duchess of Windsor on the throne. Will Bridget misplace her top-secret cipher panties in a moment of passion? Can Jane avoid being killed for England? Can she keep the suit?

The Girl With The Golden Bouffant: Irrepressible lesbian secret spy Jane Bond is back in the flawed second installment of Maney's campy riff on the adventures of the Queen's favorite agent, 007, featuring his masquerading sister, known as 007½. It is 1966, and Jane is once again pressed into service impersonating her out-of-commission brother, James, at an annual, very secret all-male spy convention in Las Vegas. Jane is actually a double agent, a member of the even more secret all-female spy agency G.E.O.R.G.I.E. (Girls in Europe Organized to Right Grievances and Insure Equality), where her true allegiance lies. Jane heads to gambling heaven with fellow agent Cedric Pumpernickel, followed by her sexy undercover girlfriend, Bridget St. Claire, also a G.E.O.R.G.I.E. agent. A slew of wacky Vegas characters add color and pizzazz to Jane's adventures, which take a deadly turn when one of the convention's spies is tossed off the nearby Hoover Dam. As Jane discovers that the world's top agents are to be methodically eliminated one by one, she and her colleagues must race to stop the killer as well as to keep Jane's true identity secret.

Mabel Maney often makes reference to Miss Lily Bee or Lillian Bee in the books, which are dedicated to her -- this is her sheltie dog :)

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