Message in a Haunted Mansion

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Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion

Developer(s)	Her Interactive
Publisher(s)	DreamCatcher
Release date(s)	November 24, 2000
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone (E)
Platform(s)	Windows

Message in a Haunted Mansion is a first-person adventure computer game, based loosely on a book of the same name. The book is part of a popular mystery series, created in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer. The heroine of the books, as well as the computer game, is named Nancy Drew. It takes place in San Francisco, California. The game was released in 2000 by Her Interactive.

1 Characters
2 Plot
3 Trivia
4 External Links

[edit] Characters

Rose Green - The woman who owns the Victorian mansion and wants to get the place turned into a bed and breakfast by next month with her friend Abby but several accidents happening around the mansion cause her to worry about opening on time.

Abby Sideris - A friend of Rose who is helping out with renovations. She is very spiritual, she believes in ghosts and holds a séance at one point in the game.

Charlie Murphy - A young workman who said he is living with friends and helping with renovations but the truth is, he stays down in the basement most of the time and his rates are very cheap.

Louis Chandler - An antique dealer who runs Chandler Interiors and specializes in the Victorian Period. He works in the library looking through the books and is helping Rose with choosing authentic decor.

[edit] Plot

Nancy is helping Rose, a friend of Nancy's house maid, get settled into an old Victorian mansion in San Francisco and with renovations. But strange accidents are happening, and it's up to Nancy to figure out who, or what, is trying to scare everyone away. According to legend, a fortune in long-lost gold is hidden somewhere on the property and someone is determined to find it that's why someone was trying to scare everyone away.

[edit] Trivia

The little voice of the disembodied head easter egg in the attic is the error sound that plays on the developer's tool.
The ghostly voice in the hallway is from the game's designer.
In Abby's room on her desk, there is a magazine with an article about Mattie Jensen, the same article that you can read in Stay Tuned for Danger, but you can barely see it.
In Louis's briefcase is a newspaper clipping about Rick Arlen from Stay Tuned for Danger in which Nancy's name is mentioned.
There are many ways of accidents in this game where you have to use the second chance. Some of them are:
- loosening the chandelier to much.
- not putting out the fire in time.
- going through the secret passage without a lantern.
- letting the culprit get away.