Nancy Drew #20
In "High School Musical Mystery, Part One," Nancy Drew finds herself in a high-stakes rivalry with the famed Dana Sisters at an elite girls' academy, where a detective contest takes a dangerous turn when a rare first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s earliest mystery story goes missing. Written by Stefan Petrucha and Sarah Kinney and brought to life with bold, expressive art by Sho Murase—pencils, inks, and colors all by the same hand—this issue blends clever puzzles with escalating tension, setting up a mystery that’s as real as it is personal. The cover by Sho Murase captures the intrigue with a sharp, stylized glimpse of the girls’ tense standoff.
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Members of an elite academy for girls set up a mystery-solving contest to prove whether Nancy or the resident Dana Sisters are the better detectives. Dierdre teams up with two local girls to humiliate the detectives by any means necessary. But the mystery becomes real when someone steals a valuable first edition of the publication where Edgar Allen Poe's first mystery story appeared.
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