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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