The player has three questions to solve – who was the poisoner, how did they do it and why. Unable to work on the case, Nancy sends all of her materials to some friends – the players – asking them to pick up where she left off and to complete her investigation. She realizes that something is wrong with the tea but ends up hospitalized a short time later. During a visit to the Magnolia Gardens in River Heights, Nancy stops by the director’s office for a cup of tea and notices that her friend is having a bad allergic reaction. The idea is that you are a friend of Nancy Drew who has found herself mixed up in another case. We both have really fond memories of puzzle-solving together so when we saw that Hunt a Killer had made a Nancy Drew mystery game in a box, we both ended up getting it as a gift for the other… In the early days of our marriage my wife and I would play these together and we worked our way through the whole range – only stopping when the games stopped being published. The deeper reason though is that there was a series of video games made a few years ago by a company called Her Interactive that adapted titles from the book series. Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew is still my daughter’s favorite series of books and these titles have been responsible for her becoming interested in mystery stories more generally which I obviously love. The most recent and rather powerful one is that my kid loves the character. Rather it is fixed on a couple of experiences as an adult. I didn’t grow up with the character (I was a Three Investigators and Five Find-Outers kinda kid) so this isn’t based on the nostalgia of childhood. I have a really soft spot for Nancy Drew.
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