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Nancy Drew Diaries #4: Once Upon a Thriller (2012)

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Nancy, Bess, and George are off to the small town of Avondale, where they rented a cabin on Moon Lake for the weekend. Nancy and George can't wait to hike and canoe, but Bess wants to just kick back and relax. After getting to the cabin and realizing that Nancy forgot the food at home, they head into town for supplies and arrive just in time to see that the local bookstore burned down. Mandy, one of the girls standing out in front, whines about how she won't get to meet Lacey O'Brien now. Lacey is the town's resident mystery writer. Though she lives in town, she seldom spends time there and only makes one appearance each year for a meet and greet at that specific bookstore. Alice Ann, owner of the Cheshire Cat Bed and Breakfast, sells Nancy a few of the writer's books and lets it slip that not everyone is a huge fan. It turns out that the writer's most recent book is about a fire, and the police think the fire at the bookstore was arson. They th...

Nancy Drew Diaries #1: Curse of the Arctic Star

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Nancy, Bess, and George are once again off to solve a mystery, this time on an Alaskan cruise ship. See, Nancy is friends with this girl Becca. Becca works for a brand new cruise line that has celebrities going on cruises with people. Some weird and strange crap happened that led to their first celeb dropping out, so she asks Nancy to come aboard and find out who is behind everything. The girls have to solve the mystery while keeping their snooping a secret from Alan, Bess's new boyfriend. Not long after getting on the ship, someone screams. They find a “dead body” in a “bloody pool,” which actually turns out to be a mannequin and powdered drink mix that someone threw in the water. A couple on their honeymoon, Vince and Lacey, seem particularly upset. They also meet Tobias, a rude little kid who moans and whines about how he doesn't want to be there and how cruises suck. Becca is on hand to calm everyone down and to slip a message to Nancy about them meeting up...