Plot or Premise

Nancy Drew almost runs over a young girl who darts out on the road, but manages to avoid her. As she meets the girl and the two sisters looking after her, Nancy learns that they are the potential heirs to a promised fortune, but the only will known to exist disinherited them. Nancy searches to see if there is another will.

What I Liked

Nancy meets four or five groups of deserving “heirs” and they all are a bit one-dimensional but good. They each have a small piece of the puzzle to share. The family that currently is set to inherit everything are not very nice, and while equally a bit one-dimensional, they serve their function well-enough. As do the various bad guys running around (a secondary story of thieves robbing houses). Almost a hundred years later, the story still holds up.

What I Didn’t Like

As I said, the characters are a bit one-dimensional. Equally though, it becomes very clear quite quickly where the hidden will might be (clue: it’s in the title!) and so it is more a scavenger hunt than detective work. Similarly for the secondary story of the thieves, which knocks the overall score down a peg.

The Bottom Line

Welcome to the wonderful world of detective Nancy Drew