The story itself was ok, not extraordinary, but it was an ok read. I'm not the biggest fan of the Nancy Drew series, but I find myself picking them up from time to time when browsing in a library. Personally, I find the books quite predictable, even when they throw in plot twists and gather more than one suspect. I found myself shouting out the villain in early stages of the book, which I wouldn't have liked to happen. Suspense is always something I look forward to in a mystery, and there wasn't much of it. Also, I thought that they could have brought in George or Bess to make things a bit more interesting instead of having Ned and Nancy there the whole time.The basic plot of the story is when the star detective, Nancy Drew is called in to solve a mystery at a college in Emerson, also where her boyfriend Ned Nickerson is attending college. The big mystery at Emerson is a theft of a top secret chemical called CLT, which was in the care of Mazsak. When she arrives there, she meets a suspicious group called P.O.E, run by Phillip Bangs which is supposed to be trying to help the environment. When she brings the group up to Ned, he fills Nancy in on his suspicions about the group, and how is friend, Angela is going to join them, and how he's persuading her not to. the story continues on until Nancy has another suspect, Mazsak's assistant in his lab, a girl called Sarah. She searches her room for evidence but finds nothing. Sarah catches Nancy in her room and then dishes about CLT and how it's a growth chemical and whenever the experiment progresses, the CLT is stolen. Nancy is also discovering that somebody is trying to get her out of Emerson by trying to booby trap her room with an explosive door-knob. The story progresses until Nancy discovers a passage which the assumes the thief is going through when stealing the CLT. Going back to Angela, she decides to go for P.O.E and has now gone missing, which worries Ned and Nancy. Nancy finally does something and uses a disguise to get through to P.O.E headquarters, where she finds Ned and Angela tied up, gagged, and drugged. She tries to get them to go with her, but then Phillip bangs, the mastermind beneath his plan stops her. Luckily, Nancy gets away in time and lives happily ever after with Ned.Notice how I have to skip a lot of parts in the summary because nothing generally happens....
