Once Upon a Crime: Delicious Mysteries and Deadly Murders from the Detective Society

by Robin Stevens

Overview

Take one last dive into the pages of Hazel’s casebook and solve six new mini mysteries in this short story companion to the internationally bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series!

Between their high-profile murder mysteries, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong tackle many other cases, like the Case of the Second Scream on the high seas and the Case of the Uninvited Guest at Uncle Felix and Aunt Lucy’s wedding. They compete with the Junior Pinkertons to solve the Hound of Weston School and humor Hazel’s tagalong little sister in the Case of the Deadly Flat. They even put their code-cracking skills to the test to catch a thief in the Case of the Missing Treasure and find their holiday interrupted by murder in the Case of the Drowned Pearl.

These riveting new mini mysteries are perfect for fans and budding members of the Detective Society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665919494
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date:	07/09/2024
Series:	A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	790,985
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.30(d)
Age Range:	10 - 18 Years

About the Author

Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in Oxford, England, across the road from the house where Alice of Alice in Wonderland lived. Robin has been making up stories all her life. She spent her teenage years at boarding school, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she’d get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn’t). She studied crime fiction in college and then worked in children’s publishing. Robin now lives in England with her family.

Editorial Reviews

"Another winning entry from the Murder Most Unladylike series, sure to spark investigative interests."

July 2024 - Booklist

2024-04-20
Nothing fishy gets past the keen eyes of the Wells & Wong Detective Society and their rivals, the Junior Pinkertons.

Stevens’ mysteries—solved by English boarding school students in the 1930s—have many fans. Here, she presents six new short stories starring Daisy Wells, Hazel Wong, Alexander Arcady, and George Mukherjee that fit in and around the novels. Hazel and Daisy, who attend Deepdean School for Girls, attend the wedding of Daisy’s uncle Felix in London, go to the English seaside (which Hong Kong–born Hazel finds cold and unappealing), and travel from Hong Kong back to England on an ocean liner. Along the way, they foil one murder and solve two others. At Weston Boys’ School, Alexander and George figure out how to thwart bullies and also save a puppy in the process. The final story, told by Hazel’s 9-year-old sister, May, is set in September 1939, as war comes to Great Britain, and it hints at even more sequels. Hazel and George serve as reminders to contemporary readers that, even in this largely white society, there were people of color, and they were navigating feelings of isolation that resonate today. George astutely points out that many objects in the British Museum have indeed been stolen, contrary to Daisy’s perception that “it’s finders keepers…Anyway, we look after them properly.”

A welcome addition to an addictive series. (glossary, hieroglyphic alphabet, Morse code alphabet, author’s note, guide to the Detective Society’s cases) (Mystery. 10-14)

Kirkus Reviews