Despite the fact that many of the Nancy Drew games run just fine, this one will not launch. Perhaps it is because it is one of latter ones created by Her Interactive right before they started supporting the Mac natively. I installed and tested the steam version of this game. The games starts but freezes on a white screen. The mouse can be moved on the white screen, but the game doesn't work.
I also tried running the game in a Virtual Desktop to no avail.
Test on iMac 27 inch i5 2.9Ghz 8GIG Ram (on Mavericks). Tested on Crossover Mac 13.1.2.
Perhaps someone else will have better luck then I did.