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Illustration 🖍 📰 🖌 de Albert Chazelle 1965 ... pour le livre "Alice et les diamants" de Caroline Quine
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Illustration 🖍 📰 🖌 de Albert Chazelle 1965 ... pour le livre "Alice et les diamants" de Caroline Quine
👋 Bel après-midi
Nancy Foils The Getaway
“Young lady, are you insane?” a shaken and disheveled Gerald Boyle demanded of Nancy as the two confronted each other on the dusty minor road. Boyle’s vehicle, a valuable vintage model at least fifty years old, was a write-off - black smoke rose ominously from under its bonnet, while Nancy’s powerful blue Sunbeam Alpha stood, almost triumphantly, blocking the older car’s exit with barely a scratch on it.
“It was the only way I could stop you!” the girl sleuth exclaimed, running forward to seize her quarry by the arm. “You need to come back to River Heights with me, Mr Boyle - you have a lot of questions to answer!” Boyle went to shake Nancy off, but the elderly fugitive found the young woman’s grip surprisingly strong. “Please just surrender, sir,” Nancy urged him, “I’d hate to have to embarrass you taking you back to the sheriff lying tied up in the back of my car!”
Source: an illustration by Albert Chazelle of Alice Roy, the French Nancy Drew, dramatically foiling a getaway.
"Silence there! Can't you talk somewhere else ?"
Albert Chazelle (1900-1974)
"At the party”. Albert Chazelle illustration, 1960s.
Date With Rodney
“Hey, Nancy!” said Rodney cheerfully. “I’m really glad you agreed to my suggestion we go for a ride and have a bite to eat! Shall we go?” Nancy smiled broadly at the excited young man as she stepped out of her front door. “Sure, Rod - I can’t wait!” she replied.
An hour later, Rodney was not quite so happy. “You darned snooper!” he complained at the girl sleuth who stood with arms folded, waiting for his frustration to burn itself out. “You tricked me!” Nancy nodded silently, after having explained to him she knew he was the jewellery thief thanks to his damaged car light. “The glass debris I recovered from outside the store match this make perfectly, Rod,” the young woman went on with a smile. “I just needed to check it was yours.”
Rodney was even less pleased when he found himself stretched on the back seat of his own car with his hands tied behind his back as Nancy drove it back to River Heights in the direction of the police station. “Are you comfortable back there, Rod?” she asked her glowering prisoner with a cheeky smile, eyeing him through the rear view mirrror. “I’m sorry our date turned out to be such a disappointment - for you at any rate!”
Source: Illustration from an Alice Roy novel by Albert Chazelle