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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