The Music Festival Mystery

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by  Carolyn Keene

The Music Festival Mystery

At the back of the entrance hall, a wide stairway led to the upper
floors of the dormitory. Bess and George were staying with Penny
and Joann on the first floor, while Nancy was staying with Dina on
the second floor.

After leaving the girls, Nancy and Dina went upstairs to her room.
At the top of the stairs Dina turned left, along a narrow corridor.
Each room door had a whiteboard attached to it, with the names of
the occupants at the top and a marker dangling from a string.
Nancy noted some of the messages on the boards as she walked
past.

“Lynn—meet at library.” “Hi, Kevin, catch you later, Pat.”
“HELP—e-mail me calc assignment ASAP, Josie.”

Dina came to a sudden stop next to one of the doors. The stiff way
she held her shoulders alerted Nancy. Something was wrong.
Nancy walked faster, then broke into a run.

Dina was staring at her whiteboard. Below her name was a crude
drawing of a heart with a dagger sticking through it.
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#157

THE MUSIC FESTIVAL
MYSTERY

CAROLYN KEENE

A Minstrel Book
PUBLISHED BY POCKET BOOKS
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either
products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A MINSTREL PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

A Minstrel Book published by
POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Copyright  2000 by Simon and Schuster, Inc.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof
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the Americas, New York, NY 10020

ISBN: 0-671-04265-3

First Minstrel Books printing November 2000

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NANCY DREW, NANCY DREW MYSTERY STORIES,
A MINSTREL BOOK and colophon are registered trademarks
of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Cover art by Franco Accornero

Printed in the U.S.A.
Contents
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1 Festival Weekend 1
2 Suspended Animation 11
3 Hearts and Daggers 20
4 Threats and Menaces 30
5 Trouble at the Bazaar 41
6 A Switch in Time 50
7 Sugar and Spice 60
8 In-Tents Danger 71
9 Walkout After Walkout 81
10 Paper Chase 91
11 A Mountain of Charges 101
12 Piles of Cash 112
13 Virus Attack! 120
14 A Shocking Plot 130
15 Facing the Music 139

1

Festival Weekend

Nancy Drew spotted the green-and-white sign she‟d
been looking for: Exit 9A—Emerson College. She put
on her blinker and steered her blue Mustang convert-
ible off the interstate onto the exit ramp. As she neared
the intersection, the light changed to red. She braked
to a halt and tucked a strand of reddish blond hair be-
hind one ear.
“We‟re almost there,” she announced.
From the backseat, Nancy‟s friend Bess Marvin said,
“Good thing. I‟m starved!”
Bess‟s cousin George Fayne was in the front passen-
ger seat. She laughed at Bess‟s announcement. “Duh,”
she said. “Admit it, Bess—you‟re always starved!”
Nancy glanced over her shoulder. The warm breeze
had tousled Bess‟s long blond hair and put a gleam in
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