
The older tragedy involves the deaths of dozens of workers at the cotton gin, also from a fire, decades ago. Her ghost is now rumored to be haunting the place. The most recent tragedy involves the death of Charlotte, the cousin of the family's matriarch Clara, in a suspicious fire. However, it soon becomes apparent that they have brought their old family dramas with them. The old family, descended from wealthy cotton plantation owners, show up to help. This time, Nancy travels to a small island in bayou country, where she must find Jessalyn Thornton, a bride-to-be who has gone missing during a ghost hunting adventure. All in all, it is a fun game that fans of previous Nancy Drew games will not be disappointed. Compared to those games, this game stands out as the scariest and creepiest of them all, with some genuinely hair-raising moments that may well frighten even an adult (much less a youngster).

Ghost of Thornton Hall is a nice fit with other games in the Nancy Drew series that also have a horror theme, which include Message in a Haunted Mansion, Curse of Blackmoor Manor, Legend of the Crystal Skull, and (most recently) The Haunting of Castle Malloy. As fans of the series will note, previous games in the series tend to fall into one of the recurring themes: horror, science, history, or travel. Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall is the 28th title in Her Interactive's popular and long-lived Nancy Drew series of first-person graphic adventure games.
