The Mystery At Lilac Inn
Hey all! It's time for Do the Drew! Like a lot of these stories, this was originally penned by Mildred Wirt Benson in 1930. Characters : Nancy and Carson Drew (with a cameo appearance by Helen Corning) Premise: Nancy investigates a theft from an inn/tearoom. Nancy's called into action when a woman, Mrs. Willoughby, loses her purse full of valuable jewels while at lunch having gotten distracted by an accident that has happened (which, okay, I can see getting distracted, but why oh why would you take valuable jewels out of a safety deposit box? This lady was stupid ). She's convinced that someone who works at the tearoom is the one who stole it and enlists Nancy to help her prove it as the jewels are important to her because they're the inheritance of her ward, Emily Crandall and she doesn't want to disappoint the girl who plans to use the gems to finance her fiancée's career, which is admirable and I probably would've done the same thing. At the same tim