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.

Nancy Drew

Carson Drew

Ted Nickerson

Killer Parkins

Mary Nickerson

Miles Lambert

Eula Denning

City Editor Bostwick

Police Sergeant Entwhistle

Bonnie Lucas

The Chemist (uncredited)

Tracy (uncredited)

Gym Spectator (uncredited)

Dr. Carey (uncredited)

Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)

Pedestrian (uncredited)

Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)
February 18, 1939

Nancy Drew

Carson Drew

Ted Nickerson

Killer Parkins

Mary Nickerson

Miles Lambert

Eula Denning

City Editor Bostwick

Police Sergeant Entwhistle

Bonnie Lucas

The Chemist (uncredited)

Tracy (uncredited)

Gym Spectator (uncredited)

Dr. Carey (uncredited)

Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)

Pedestrian (uncredited)

Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)
