This school needs to start doing background checks

Well, well, well.

Of all the detectives in all the world, she came to me.

Christ, Philip, get your head out of the gutter for once, this is a family website.

Connie, a girl with a short hair and a purple polo top, sits at a table behind a desk sign reading Hall Monitor, in a scene from Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill Remastered

We’re going to find out for ourselves by playing them.

I’m as disappointed as you.

In the case of Secrets Can Kill, Nancy has actually been recruited by the cops!

Nancy’s letter to her dad saying she’s on a new case, in Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill

Like, yeah, it’s 1998!

Before we go any further, let me introduce you to our very small cast.

refuses to give you the code to Jake’s locker.

A display of student art in the school in Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill Remastered

Oh what, suddenly that’s a step too far, Steve?

There are loads of little surprises if you pay attention.

One of the more obvious surprises to me was the voice acting!

A series of notes written back to front and upside down - hidden clues in Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill Remastered

The puzzles are pleasingly complex, too.

How short memory is.

Similarly, the beats about academic and financial pressure aren’t what I was expecting.

There’s a subplot about a masked martial arts master secretly winning tournaments that genuinely took me by surprise.

A disappointment on two counts, there.

I’m interested to see how Nancy’s personality evolves as we go.