A special anniversary hardback edition of the first award-winning mystery starring schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. Features an exclusive new chapter!
A special anniversary hardback edition of the first award-winning mystery starring schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. Features an exclusive new chapter!
A special anniversary hardback edition of the first award-winning mystery starring schoolgirl detectives, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. Features an exclusive new chapter!When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.)Then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym. She assumes it was a terrible accident - but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve- they have to prove one happened in the first place.Determined to get to the bottom of the crime before the killer strikes again (and before the police can get there first, naturally), Hazel and Daisy must hunt for evidence, spy on their suspects and use all the cunning and intuition they can muster. But will they succeed? And can their friendship stand the test?
“I absolutely loved it”
Ripping good fun The Times
A skilful blend of golden era crime novel and boarding school romp . . . Top class Financial Times
Friendship, boarding school and a murder worthy of Agatha Christie The Bookseller
Plotting is what sets this book apart Telegraph
An addictive debut, full of wit, panache and iced-bun breaks Metro
Enormous fun Irish Times
Irresistible . . . The plot twists and turns like nobody's business The Bookbag
Part murder mystery, part diary, and a pitch-perfect snapshot of adolescent friendship Publishers Weekly
I envy any young reader discovering this enchanting new series and writer . . . A real treat -- Amanda Craig
-- Susie Day
Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life.When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies' College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then she worked at a children's publisher.Robin is now a full-time author and the creator of the internationally award-winning and bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, starring Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, and the brand-new Ministry of Unladylike Activity. She still hopes she might get the chance to do some detecting of her own one day. She lives in Oxford.
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