Someone breaks into River Heights High and steals the school's prized softball trophies. Nancy is convinced that the theft is not a simple case of bad sportsmanship.
Nancy's old friend Katie is favored to win the Far West Regional Water-Skiing Championship. The site of the competition is beautiful Lake Tahoe. But beneath the serene blue skies, Nancy soon finds herself adrift in deep and dangerous waters.
Nancy and friends spend a week at the Wolfe Culinary Institute, but soon after their arrival Nancy discovers that ambition, jealousy, and greed are also on the menu.
Someone is trying to hurt Nancy's friend Colleen and her very valuable champion jumping horse, Nightingale. Nancy's only chance to horse-collar the culprit is to play some tricks of her own: don a disguise and make herself the bait.
Nancy investigates the theft of a Tibetan antiquity from a local museum. Her trail to the golden horse is littered with poisoned clues and hidden traps.
