Solving crimes with science is fascinatingтАФuntil a pretend mystery becomes all too real!
Nancy gets Bess, George, and Ned to help out with a special program for high school students, a тАЬchemysteryтАЭ camp. TheyтАЩll visit a forensics lab, a drug company, and a university to see how science is used to solve crimes. Then theyтАЩll use what theyтАЩve learned to work on a made-up case.
But the mystery begins even before the program starts when the professor who runs it suddenly falls into a coma. Now NancyтАЩs in chargeтАФof the made-up case and the real one. Strange encounters of the dangerous kind and a list of promising suspects test all her talents of deduction. From the tiniest clue on a carpet to real menace in a quarry, NancyтАЩs crime lab is bubbling with trouble!