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Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake Hints

I notice something strange with the doors in the secret passage.

  • 1 of 4: Yes, we do too.  When we first enter the secret passage that contains the tiled dog pictures and coastlines, and make our way down to the door at the end of the right fork that leads to the Ghost Dogs, we do not have the ability to open that door.  It is opened only after we solve the tile puzzle -- the puzzle that no one in the story had been able to solve for over fifty years.  In that case, how could Emily feed her dogs?  She wouldn't have been able to open the door. 
  • 2 of 4: We asked Her Interactive about this one.  They explained that Emily came in by boat to feed the dogs, not through the secret passage.
  • 3 of 4: This makes sense.  Emily came by boat, unlocked the gate to the cove, built the dog pen and cared and fed for the dogs, and discovered the closed metal door.  She must have forced it open, discovered the secret passage and its tiled pictures, discovered the speakeasy, but never discovered the new passage to the gold.
  • 4 of 4: Still, remember when Nancy solved the tile puzzle and successfully opened the door to the new passage, she hears the door to the Ghost Dogs opening and remarks, "That doesn't sound good."  Well, it turned out that the sound WAS good -- it was good to get that Ghost Dog door open.  But why worry us that the sound is bad when it isn't?   A much neater scenario would be that we discover that the doors on either end of the passage -- the door Nancy entered by and the door leading to the dogs -- affect each other in the way that Vivian said they would.  The solution to open the door to the Ghost Dogs then, would be to close the door to the secret passage, not by opening the door to the new passage.