Released:
1939-02-18

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.

Director:
William Clemens

Runtime:
1h 8min

Genre:
Comedy, Crime, Mystery

• 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