Summary
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.
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Cast
Bonita Granville
Nancy Drew
John Litel
Carson Drew
Frankie Thomas
Ted Nickerson
Dickie Jones
Killer Parkins
Mary Lee
Mary Nickerson
Larry Williams
Miles Lambert
Betty Amann
Eula Denning
Thomas E. Jackson
City Editor Bostwick
Olin Howland
Police Sergeant Entwhistle
Sheila Bromley
Bonnie Lucas
Hooper Atchley
The Chemist (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Tracy (uncredited)
Al Bain
Gym Spectator (uncredited)
Nat Carr
Dr. Carey (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)
Steve Clark
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)
John Dilson
Deputy Coroner (uncredited)
Edgar Edwards
Drunk (uncredited)
Willie Fung
Mandarin Cafe Proprietor (uncredited)
Chester Gan
Mandarin Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)
Dick Gordon
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
William Gould
The Judge (uncredited)
Kit Guard
Man at Gym Counter (uncredited)
George Guhl
Policeman at Lambert Estate (uncredited)
Florence Halop
Phyllis Gimble, Journalism Student (uncredited)
Charles Halton
Newspaper Publicity Man (uncredited)
Jack Kenney
Gym Spectator with Cigar (uncredited)
Joan Leslie
Mayme, Journalism Student (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Maxie, Gym Attendant (uncredited)
Frank Mayo
Man Leaving Courthouse (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Deputy Coroner (uncredited)
Leonard Mudie
Deputy District Attorney Garrett (uncredited)
George Offerman, Jr.
Tribune Office Boy (uncredited)
Frank Orth
Captain Tweedy (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
Jack Perry
Soxie Anthens (uncredited)
Renie Riano
Effie Schneider (uncredited)
John J. Richardson
Joe, Taxi Driver (uncredited)
John Ridgely
Beldenburg Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Betty Roadman
First Prison Matron (uncredited)
Charles Smith
Charles, Journalism Student (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Gym Spectator (uncredited)
Elliott Sullivan
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Leo White
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)