Secrets Can Kill

This is the first book in the Nancy Drew Files series. Nancy has graduated from high school. She's developed a reputation with the local police as someone that can help them and they have her go undercover at a high school where there has been a series of locker break-ins and some video equipment stolen.

The book says Nancy's mother died when she was still a baby which doesn't agree with The Secret of the Old Clock, 1930 printing, which has Nancy's mother dying when she was 10, or the revised text of the same book which says, with Nancy 18, that her mother died “many years ago.”

Anyhow, Nancy gets a videotape warning her not to become involved in what is going on at the school.

She drives a red mustang at the time. She's given a student contact at the school, a Darryl Gray, and quickly runs into the school nasty boy, Jake Webb. There's also a girl jealous of Nancy's relation to Darryl which gets slightly heated, showing Nancy is more than willing to kiss another boy even though she still has her boyfriend Ned.

Someone tampers with the brakes on Nancy's car and it ends up toast. Things get stranger when a student is murdered and Nancy finds wire-cutters in his locker. There's also a nasty female reporter character and even international intrigue involved in the story.

It's a good first book for the series.

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