Nancy Drew

Alison Kerry works on four retro-inspired audiobook covers for Spotify’s editions of Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew series.

Alison’s designs are for Spotify’s audiobook releases of The Secret of the Old Clock, The Mystery at Lilac Inn, The Bungalow Mystery, and The Hidden Staircase.

Styling Nancy in 1930s clothing and working with a palette influenced by 1950s Technicolor films, the series has a vivid but slightly timeworn feel.

Drawn from vintage paperback covers, old sewing patterns, and the familiar theatricality of classic detective stories, the covers have a shared identity that feels nostalgic, with a familiar sense of suspense, true to what the genre promises.

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