What chance has a story with this 16-year-old newshawk on its trail?
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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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)
Sam Bagley
Trainer (uncredited)
Al Bain
Gym Spectator (uncredited)
Frankie Burke
Beldenburg Hotel Bellboy (uncredited)
Nat Carr
Dr. Carey (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
Newspaper Office Worker / Beldenburg Hotel Passerby (uncredited)
Loia Cheaney
Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
Steve Clark
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
Newspaper Morgue-Keeper (uncredited)
2007
Intrepid teenage private eye Nancy Drew heads to Tinseltown with her father to investigate the unsolved murder of a movie star in this old-fashioned whodunit based on Carolyn Keene's popular series of books for young adults. But can the small-town girl cut through the Hollywood hype to solve the case?
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2019
Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community
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1941
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
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1939
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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1947
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
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1964
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
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1980
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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1993
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
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1953
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
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1944
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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1930
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
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1946
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
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1985
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
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1989
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
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1965
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
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1948
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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1975
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
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1999
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.
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1976
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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1949
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
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