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 | Nancy Drew | |
John Litel | Carson Drew | |
Frankie Thomas | Ted Nickerson | |
Dickie Jones | Killer Parkins | |
Mary Lee | Mary | |
Larry Williams | Miles Lambert | |
Betty Amann | Eula Denning | |
Thomas E. Jackson | Bostwick - City Editor | |
Olin Howland | Police Sgt. Entwhistle | |
Sheila Bromley | Bonnie Lucas | |
Hooper Atchley | Chemist | |
Irving Bacon | Tracy | |
Sam Bagley | Trainer | |
Abie Bain | Gym Spectator | |
Frankie Burke | Bellboy | |
Nat Carr | Dr. Carey | |
Glen Cavender | Newspaper Office Worker | |
Loia Cheaney | Newspaper Office Worker | |
Steve Clark | Pedestrian | |
Jimmy Conlin | Newspaper Morgue-Keeper | |
Clyde Courtright | Doorman | |
John Dilson | Deputy Coroner | |
Edgar Edwards | Drunk | |
Jimmie Fox | Gym Trainer | |
Paul Fung | Waiter |
Director | William Clemens | |
Writer | Kenneth Gamet, Carolyn Keene | |
Producer | Bryan Foy, Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner | |
Musician | Heinz Roemheld | |
Photography | Arthur Edeson |