Robin Stevens
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| Original Title: | Murder Most Unladylike: A Wells & Wong Mystery |
| ISBN: | 0552570729 (ISBN13: 9780552570725) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Murder Most Unladylike Mystery #1 |
| Characters: | Daisy Wells, Hazel Wong |
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1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up a secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find a truly exciting mystery to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.)But then Hazel discovers the body of the Science Mistress, Miss Bell - but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now the girls have to solve a murder, and prove a murder has happened in the first place before the killer strikes again (and before the police can get there first, naturally),
But will they succeed?
And can their friendship stand the test?
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| Title | : | Murder Most Unladylike: A Wells & Wong Mystery (Murder Most Unladylike Mystery #1) |
| Author | : | Robin Stevens |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 350 pages |
| Published | : | June 5th 2014 by Corgi Books |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Childrens. Middle Grade. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 7671 Users | 1055 ReviewsColumn Based On Books Murder Most Unladylike: A Wells & Wong Mystery (Murder Most Unladylike Mystery #1)
Well say hello to a combination of Nancy Drew, Veronica Mars and Blyton's boarding school books. Add to that a touch of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot and you've got it made!Only this time it is 1934. Thirteen-year-old girls Hazel Wong(from Hong Kong) and Daisy Wells (from the English upper classes) have formed their own secret club, the Wells and Wong Detective Society at the Deepdean School for Girls in England. They are quite successful in digging up secrets from everybody in school, withI really wanted to like this book, solely because at least half the year 5 and 6 kids at school are OBSESSED with this series, and the past few middle grade books that I've read have been fabulous. Unfortunately, this one fell a little flat for me. Pros- Historical fiction with an Asian protagonist.- It's a middle grade crime series. I mean, how often do you get that?!- Lots of insinuation that two female teachers were in a relationship- Also reference to older girls using supply closets to make
I'd like to add some thoughts after rereading this book. As much as I enjoyed it this time around, I think that I would have liked a little more humour and fun and overall silliness, which I really missed, especially because I think there were plenty of opportunites for that. I'm also not too fond of the resolution because it should have been the girls' detective work throughout. Bringing a professional detective at the end may be realistic, it's a little too much to ask of me to like him when
Murder Most Unladylike has been all over my Twitter timeline and Goodreads feed for the past God knows how long. I kept seeing it everywhere. Everyone I talked to, whether online or in person, loved it to bits and were eagerly awaiting the next books in the series. Which, to be honest, is quite rare. I rarely come across books that literally all my bookish friends and fellow bloggers love without exception. I was intrigued.So, towards the end of my holiday earlier this month, I decided to pick
You may know by now that I have a thing for school stories. School stories are one of the great joys of children's literature in that they do what they do so well. They tell a story in a frame which is familiar to the majority of children, and they do it with a sort of glorious constancy irrespective of date of publication. There is a part of me that wants to see Murder Most Unladylike read with books like The Princess of the Chalet School or Beswitched because it fits so comfortably and solidly
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are students at the Deepdean School for Girls in 1934, where nothing very interesting happens. Just in case, Daisy has formed a secret detective agency with her best friend Hazel as Watson to Daisy's Sherlock Holmes. At first the only case they solve is the mystery of Lavinia's tie but they have their eye on the teachers' love lives, specifically following their handsome art teacher, known as "The One" by his devoted students. Then Hazel discovers Science Mistress and
The setting for 'Murder Most Unladylike' is 1934 at Deepdean School for Girls, where Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are two third form pupils.Daisy, 'one of those dainty, absolutely English girls with blue eyes and golden hair', and Hazel, an arrival from Hong Kong part way through the second term, decide, on the initiative of the former, to form a Detective Society to investigate any untoward incidents that might happen at the school. They kept the venture secret and even their friends in the same
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