She returns to the hotel to meet Ned, and later the rest of the tour arrives. After an attempt to find the film fails, Nancy goes with Gutterman and sees half of Captive Witness. The car is amphibious, and she and Ned drive into a river that turns into a waterfall. They question Nancy, but she quickly escapes and steals their car. Later, Gutterman and Burger drive up to a small cabin high in the Alps. Herr Burger is not a cautious driver, and the car almost goes over the edge of a cliff. Herr Gutterman and his chauffeur, Herr Burger, drive Nancy and Ned high into the Alps. As soon as they leave, however, Nancy realizes that she and Ned are being kidnapped by Herr Gutterman, who is the person who tried to steal Professor Bagley's luggage. Because no rental cars are available, Nancy convinces Herr Gutterman to take her and Ned in his car. Nancy thinks that the stolen film is in Vienna, which the tour will not reach for another few days, so she convinces her boyfriend Ned Nickerson to drive with her to Vienna. Kurt Kessler had hoped to enter the film in a film contest in five days, and unless Nancy can find his film, he will not be able to show the world his important work. However, the film was stolen and the studio with the negative burned down, so the stolen film is the only copy of Kessler's Captive Witness. A famous film director named Kurt Kessler created a devastating political film about the oppression of human rights in his home country in Eastern Europe. At the hotel, Nancy is now able to focus on an assignment given to her by her father.
Grudgingly, the professor accepts the offer as there is no other alternative. An obnoxious man named Herr Gutterman offer reservations at another hotel for a large group that had canceled. Upon arriving in Salzburg, the large group finds that their hotel reservations have been canceled. Another Emerson student, Eric Nagy, who had been paralyzed by an accident and uses a wheelchair, is also in on the mission as his thirteen-year-old cousin is one of the children. After an attempted theft, the tour leader, professor Raymond Bagley, tells Nancy of his secret mission: to smuggle ten children aged six to thirteen out of an Iron Curtain country to relatives in England, France, and the United States. Nancy is on a student tour of Austria with Emerson college. The original edition cover was by Ruth Sanderson, with six internal illustrations by Paul Frame.
Scholastic also released a version of the book, titled as Captive Witness Mystery. It was originally published in 1981 by the Wanderer imprint of Simon & Schuster and ghostwritten by Richard Ballard. Captive Witness is the 64th volume in the Nancy Drew Stories series.
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