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.
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
Hooper Atchley
as The Chemist (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
as Tracy (uncredited)
