So we call the Hardys to update them on this. We really bonded when he let us out of our cell to solve our own crime. I mean, I like to think we’re cool with that police chief in River Heights who arrested Nancy. Anyway, Nancy says that we have to tattle on Niobe for the greater good (the greater good!) and she tells us that if we have to tell, we can only tell our closest friends. Again, doesn’t this reflect badly on Niobe’s friend, not her? And didn’t the docent at the Met know that Niobe painted them anyway? I don’t know what’s happening anymore. She tells us about the paintings of hers that are in the Met - she painted them under a less-talented friend’s name as a favor, and her friend got famous off them, and Niobe got nothing. She cracks and admits that she is copying - but only for herself! Because she loves the art so much, she wants duplicates! Niobe, they sell prints and miniatures and shit in museum gift stores. Niobe is weirdly not mad at us anymore, even though we’re doing the exact same thing that pissed her off earlier. Jesus, okay, so let’s go through what we suspect everyone of right now: Niobe is possibly making copies of the art, Grigor is possibly stealing it and selling it to people, and Thanos is…possibly hanging around in case he gets to murder anyone. Talking to Niobe again will let us accuse her of counterfeiting the art. Which is probably why the FBI doesn’t want you helping them, Hardys. I mean, at some point, you start thinking teenagers are children, too. The Hardys say that they found out that Melina didn’t even move “here” until she was a teenager, so she couldn’t have spent her childhood here. So…the two things Nancy never does.įor some reason, we can’t talk to the Hardys about that particular weirdness - we can tell them that Melina made it sound like she practically grew up at the museum, so it’s not likely that she’s stealing from her second home. Nancy’s like, “What the fuck?” and Melina snaps that we should just accept that we’re wrong and go home. We call Melina with this disturbing information, but instead of being grateful, she yells at us that the earrings are DEFINITELY NOT FAKES and EVERYTHING IS FINE and NO CRIME IS HAPPENING AT ALL.
But which of our extremely shady suspects is the culprit? Like, one of them is a murderer, but I guess that doesn’t necessarily also make him an art thief. Previously on Nancy Drew: Labyrinth of Lies: We did an insane amount of puzzles, and found out that several of the museum artifacts are fakes.