The Solution

Who did it?

Each of the six girls have motive for setting the boat adrift:

Nancy Drew loves a good mystery maybe enough to create her own.

Mary Ann is on her first vacation and wants to stretch out her time.

Ginger would like the publicity being stranded would generate.

Ashley is lonely and has a hard time making new friends in her new life.

Kenna was often teased by the other girls and may want revenge.

Annie is so confused about her life that she wouldn’t mind some extra time on the island to work things out.

At 4:00 the girls went down to the beach together. At 4:50 Kenna S. Marty went back to the Inn in search of a snack. As she reached for a glass in the kitchen, it started to fall and she dove to catch it. As she dove she accidentally fell on the radio, sending it smashing to the floor. It was a total accident but Kenna was so embarrassed by it, and didn’t want to be teased again, so she kept the whole thing a secret and returned to the beach as if nothing had happened.

At 5:00 Ashley McKnight III slipped away from the group and went down to the boat dock. She knew how to work the winch mechanism because she had sailed on her family’s boat many times. But this winch was older than the one she had worked with and she had a little trouble, as she leaned in to put pressure on the handle her swim suit got caught in the mechanism and tour it. Luckily she had brought several others to change into. Once the boat was found missing, her plan was to call in her private helicopter to rescue everyone. She was really surprised and worried when she learned that the one working radio on the island had been destroyed. Ashley was hopping that through rescuing all her friends they would like her more and she would get the love and attention from them that she didn’t get from her own parents who were too busy with their mult-milion dollar fast food empire to notice Ashley.

The next morning Annie “Speedo” Rodgers set out for the two mile swim to Freeport. It was no problem for her and within hours a rescue boat arrived at Little Iguana island. Everyone was saved and Annie got her picture on the front page of the local paper. Ginger was somewhat pleased to get a small mention in the article. Nancy was really happy to have found the scrap of fabric that solved another case. Mary Ann had some really nice souvenirs to take back to the farm. Kenna offered to pay for the radio she smashed. Ashley felt really bad about what she did and offered to pay for another reunion next year.


And they all lived happily ever after.

The End



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