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- ISBN 9780141369723
- Weight: 264g
- Dimensions: 129 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 9-11
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The fifth thrilling mystery in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series.
'Robin Stevens is Agatha Christie for children' Katherine Rundell
‘This is that rare thing: a series that gets better with every book’ Telegraph
It's Christmas, and Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending their holiday in snowy Cambridge with Daisy’s big brother, Bertie. But there’s danger lurking in the dark stairwells of Maudlin College – and two days before Christmas, there is a terrible accident.
At least, it appears to be an accident - until the Detective Society looks a little closer, and realise a murder has taken place.
Faced with several irritating grown-ups and fierce competition from a rival agency, Daisy and Hazel must use all their cunning and courage to find the killer (in time for Christmas Day, of course).
Discover the beloved murder mystery phenomenon that has sold over a million copies.
'Thrilling' Guardian
'Perfect' The Times
'A superb puzzle . . . Splendidly seasonal' Metro
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 England.
