Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found - murdered. There's a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects - and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new school term, but nothing is the same. The fantastic new mystery from the author of Murder Most Unladylike. But the killer has vanished - as if into thin air. When the door is broken down, a passenger is found murdered, her stunning ruby necklace gone. Then, during dinner, there is a scream from inside one of the cabins. Even more intriguing: there is rumour of a spy in their midst. But will they succeed? And can their friendship stand the test.ĭaisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the world-famous Orient Express - and it's clear that each of their fellow first-class passengers has something to hide. 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. Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve: they have to prove one happened in the first place. She assumes it was a terrible accident - but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym.

(Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. 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.

She then studied crime fiction in University and then worked at a children’s publisher. She spent her teenage years reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping she’d get the chance to pursue a detective role. Robin Stevens was born in California, she grew up in Oxford college, opposite from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived.

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