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Jolly Foul Play

“Someone’s playing dangerous games at Deepdean...”

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new term, but nothing is the same. There’s a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of prefects  — and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs.

Tensions are running high. Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found  — murdered.

Who might have committed such foul play? And with Deepdean running riot, and their own friendship falling apart, can the Detective Society solve the case?

We were all looking up, and so we missed the murder.

I have never seen Daisy so furious. She has been grinding her teeth (so hard that my teeth ache in sympathy) and saying, ‘Oh, Hazel! How could we not notice it? We were on the spot!”

You see, Daisy needs to know things, and see everything, and get in everywhere. Being reminded that despite all the measure she puts in place (having informants in the younger years, ingratiating herself with the older girls and Hones the handyman and the mistresses), there are still things going on and Deppdean that she does not understand  — well, that has put her in an even worse mood than the one she has been in lately.

https://robin-stevens.co.uk/jolly-foul-play/

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First Class Murder

“All aboard for murder...”

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the famous Orient Express. From the moment the girls step aboard, it’s clear that everyone in the first-class carriage has something to hide.

Then there is a scream from one of the sabins, and a wealthy heiress is found dead. But the killer has vanished  — as if into thin air...

Daisy and Hazel are faced with their first locked-room mystery  — and with competition from several other sleuths, who are just as determined to crack the case.

From the way my father is carrying on, anyone would think that the murder which has just taken place was our fault  — or rather, that it was Daisy’s.

Of course, this is not true in the least. First, holidaying on a train was his idea  — and inviting Daisy too. And as for Daisy and me being detectives  — why, it is just who we are. This murder would always have happened, whether Daisy and I had been here to detect it or not, so how can we be blamed for investigating it? If he did not, what sort of Detective Society would we be?

Naturally, murder is always rather dreadful, but all the same, after our last murder case (at Daisy's house, Fallingford, in the Easter holidays), when every suspect was someone we knew, this seems rather separate to us, and that is a relief. With one exception, everyone who might possibly have been involved in this crime was a perfect stranger to Daisy and me two days ago.

https://robin-stevens.co.uk/first-class-murder/

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