The Very First Snoop...

...that is, the first founder of Snowden's line of Snoops, was born November 5, 1964, in the fictional small town of Stoneville, a small town about an hour from Allen County and Snowden, and christened Nancy Louise Morgan. She was a bright young girl; a hard-working scholar who was addicted to books and reading. It was because of this love of reading that her closest friend and classmate, Lorelei Swickart, a winsome, pretty blonde who was much more into riding her bike, being pretty, and innocently flirting with Nancy's big brother Tim Morgan than into study or especially reading, gave Nancy the five Nancy Drew books Lorelei's aunt had given Lorelei for her tenth birthday. Young Nancy was instantly enthralled with them, and found herself yearning to discover and solve a mystery of her own. That wish came true for her in a tale called The Snowden Snoops and the Case of the Very First Snoop (which is available to read at GDIT)!

In the tale, Nancy decides to go on the case when bicycles start disappearing in Stoneville. The first of the bikes to go is a hand-me-down belonging to her other close friend, Mary Catherine O'Doolan, one of the youngest children of the large and impoverished O'Doolan family. And when Lorelei's and Nancy's teenaged neighbor Linda Fowler's bikes vanish too, Nancy takes up the hunt for the thief! And like any intrepid young sleuth, she decides to lay a little trap for the villain--and we know what usually happens when an intrepid young sleuth lays a trap!

And thus is founded the sleuthing tradition which eventually became The Snowden Snoops. It turns out that a taste for sleuthing can run in families--in particular, the eventual daughters of Nancy Morgan! More on them later!