This is the fourth book in the Nancy Drew Files series. The story is about a magazine named Flash. One of the co-owners asks Nancy for help as she thinks the other co-owner, Mick, is trying to kill her. Nancy becomes an intern at the place and quickly finds out that almost all the workers there hate Yvonne, the person who asked Nancy for help.
Nancy is suspicious of David, a person who is being paid by a group that wants to buy out the magazine (another example of corporate greed at work). Ned eventually is brought in to also work there. The question becomes who is trying to kill who and how. Nancy, Ned and a female worker there are almost burned to a crisp.
Unfortunately, a good part of the book deals with Nancy being jealous about Ned, although she take a quite an uncompromising position on a vacation he wanted to take with her. Her detective work came first, and Ned second.
The story also makes little sense in its main premise, and that is the person who called Nancy in to investigate possible attempts against her life made a rather dumb move. It would have been much better suited to her purposes not to bring anyone in at all, especially someone who has a background in solving various crimes and mysteries. In that case, the book doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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