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Nancy reveals the details of Tiffany's relationship to Karen so that Nick will not be treated as a suspect. Carson finds a print on Nancy's shoe matching one she left behind at the inn. Nick and Nancy follow Tiffany's clues to Lilac Inn, and find a hidden vault containing a lockbox. George is nearly killed by several 'accidents', and receives a visit from a woman named Rita who turns out to have died several decades earlier. Karen informs Nancy that the charges against her will be dropped if she helps build a case against Nick. He explains that she had been visiting him every week up until his release and left him an old clock in Nancy's mother's roadster. Nancy discovers evidence of a secret friendship between Tiffany and Nick. George discovers that her bucket of seawater has turned to blood, a warning that death is soon to follow. Later that night, he secretly burns Lucy's dress on the beach. He tells her that Nick couldn't have known Tiffany's identity since she testified behind a screen. Carson agrees to represent Ryan in order to afford his daughter's bail. Nancy retrieves the blood and some evidence connected to Lucy's case, but accidentally trips the alarm George suddenly arrives and hides the goods while Nancy is arrested. Bess and Ace pretend to have car trouble to delay Ryan's transporter Lisbeth, who hits it off with Bess. George angrily refuses to help, blaming Nancy for her reputation as a 'slut' in high school. She also spies on George, learning of her secret relationship with Ryan. Nancy learns that the Hudson family has arranged for Tiffany's body to be moved out of town, so she decides to break into the morgue and take some blood to be analyzed. In an effort to improve his public image, Ryan takes part in the town's annual Seawater Festival, in which a bucket of seawater is placed outside to determine whether someone will die in the coming year. That night, while investigating in the attic, she finds Lucy's bloodstained dress in a locked chest. She decides to try and figure out who killed Tiffany, with Bess, George, and Nick among her potential suspects. Nancy discovers that her father is secretly dating a cop, Karen Hart, and that her boyfriend Nick served time after Tiffany testified against him in court.

The locket contains a reference to Lucy Sable, a girl who was killed nineteen years ago Nancy, Bess, and George hire a medium to contact Lucy's spirit and receive a cryptic message to 'find the dress'.

When the police chief tries to pin the murder on Nancy, whom he's despised for years, she breaks into Ryan's house looking for evidence and finds a locket hidden in a secret compartment. All that changes when one night, she and her co-workers George, Bess, and Ace discover the body of Tiffany Hudson, wife of local businessman Ryan Hudson. In the fictional town of Horseshoe Bay, Maine, retired teenage detective Nancy Drew is spending her gap year working as a waitress at The Bayside Claw while she deals with the grief of her mother Katherine's death. Noga Landau & Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage

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