Overview
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Cast
- Bonita Granville as Nancy Drew
- John Litel as Carson Drew
- Frankie Thomas as Ted Nickerson
- Dickie Jones as Killer Parkins
- Mary Lee as Mary Nickerson
- Larry Williams as Miles Lambert
- Betty Amann as Eula Denning
- Thomas E. Jackson as City Editor Bostwick
- Olin Howland as Police Sergeant Entwhistle
- Sheila Bromley as Bonnie Lucas