Story :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 GranvilleNancy Drew
John LitelCarson Drew
Frankie ThomasTed Nickerson
Dickie JonesKiller Parkins
Mary LeeMary Nickerson
Larry WilliamsMiles Lambert
Betty AmannEula Denning
Thomas E. JacksonCity Editor Bostwick
Olin HowlandPolice Sergeant Entwhistle
Sheila BromleyBonnie Lucas
Hooper AtchleyThe Chemist (uncredited)
Irving BaconTracy (uncredited)
Sam BagleyTrainer (uncredited)
Al BainGym Spectator (uncredited)
Frankie BurkeBeldenburg Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
Nat CarrDr. Carey (uncredited)
Glen CavenderNewspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)
Loia CheaneyNewspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
Steve ClarkPedestrian (uncredited)
Jimmy ConlinNewspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)
Clyde CourtrightBeldenburg Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
John DilsonDeputy Coroner (uncredited)
Edgar EdwardsDrunk (uncredited)
Jimmie FoxGym Trainer (uncredited)
Paul FungMandarin Cafe Waiter (uncredited)
Willie FungMandarin Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
Chester GanMandarin Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)
Jack A. GoodrichPhotographer in Courtroom (uncredited)
Dick GordonCourtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Sol GorssCitizen Driver (uncredited)
William GouldThe Judge (uncredited)
Eddie GrahamPedestrian During Chase (uncredited)
Kit GuardMan at Gym Counter (uncredited)
George GuhlPoliceman at Lambert Estate (uncredited)