Ned and Nancy track down a ghostly saboteur in the twenty-third book in the Nancy Drew Diaries series, a fresh approach to a classic series.
Nancy and Ned are visiting Coffin Hall, an estate turned rare books library, doing research on the libraryโs rumored ghost for an episode of the NedTalks podcast when a fire breaks out in the records room. One of the libraryโs security guards accuses Ned of arsonโafter all, he was the only one in the room when the fire startedโbut Ned swears it wasnโt him. He was trying to stop the fire. He tells Nancy he saw a lady in blue right before the incident, and thinks it was Henrietta Coffin, the ghost of Coffin Hall!
Nancy is confident her boyfriend is innocent, and sheโs determined to identify the real culprit, though sheโs pretty sure it wasnโt of the paranormal sort. When she investigates further, she learns that the fire was just the latest in a string of recent strange and inexplicable incidents plaguing Coffin Hall.
Itโs increasingly apparent that someone has more than a passing interest in shutting down the library. But whoโor whatโis responsible? And why?