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Arsenic For Tea: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Paperback – 18 February 2016
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- Reading age9 - 12 years
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date18 February 2016
- ISBN-100141369795
- ISBN-13978-0141369792
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"I swear to be a good and clever member of the Detective Society, and to logically detect the crimes presented to me using all the cleverness I have, not placing reliance on grown-ups, especially the police."
- The Detective Society Pledge
Don't miss the final novel in the Murder Most Unladylike series...out now!
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"Ripping good fun" – The Times |
“Thrilling” - The Guardian |
"But this is that rare thing: a series that gets better with every book." - The Telegraph |
The final novel in the Murder Most Unladylike series is out now!
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, where they are taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get, instead, is murder.
Also travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the Breath of Life: a group of genteel English ladies and gentlemen, who believe themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient pharaohs. Three days into the cruise their leader, Theodora Miller, is found dead in her cabin, stabbed during the night. It soon becomes clear to Daisy and Hazel that Theodora's timid daughter Hephzibah, who is prone to sleepwalking, is being framed. And within the society, everyone has a reason to want Theodora dead...
Daisy and Hazel leap into action and begin to investigate their most difficult case yet. But there is danger all around, and only one of the Detective Society will make it home alive...
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A feelgood blend of Malory Towers and Cluedo . . . Stevens has upped her game in this new volume ― Telegraph
An entertaining, nostalgic brainteaser ― Sunday Times
A delight . . . The Agatha Christie-style clues are unravelled with sustained tension and the whole thing is a hoot from start to finish ― Daily Mail
A feast for readers -- Amanda Craig ― New Statesman
Arsenic for Tea is a joy. A multi-layered sandwich cake of joy . . . Stylish, charming, witty and delightful . . . Worth cancelling everything for ― Did You Ever Stop to Think
Even better than its predecessor . . . Brilliant ― The Bookzone
These Agatha-Christie-indebted tales involve detective duo Daisy Wells and her sidekick Hazel Wong, wealthy schoolgirls from England and Hong Kong. In the first book, they investigated a murder at their boarding school. This time, Daisy's family's stately home - a hotbed of jealousy and greed - provides a rich cast of suspects when it's not just the cake candles that are snuffed out at a birthday tea party. Emotional conflict, logical deduction and the period setting make for an entertaining, nostalgic brainteaser -- Nicolette Jones ― Sunday Times
As irresistible and entertaining as the first. Just the thing to devour with a pot of tea and a plate of scones ― Young Post
About the Author
Robin 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 her books are both award-winning and bestselling. She lives in Oxford.
Product details
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0141369795
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141369792
- Reading age : 9 - 12 years
- Best Sellers Rank: 20,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Another enjoyable murder mystery story for our amateur sleuths, Hazel and Daisy, who are very engaging characters and, as commented in my review for the first book in the series, complement each other well with Daisy being the more excitable and intuitive of the duo and Hazel being the more cautious and practical. And in this story we see Daisy in a very difficult position as she has to consider the possibility that someone in her own family is the murderer. Full of red herrings and things that go bump in the night, this is a very enjoyable story and although I did work out who the murderer was, I'm much older than the intended target audience for this book and despite correctly guessing 'whodunnit' before the end, I still found this a really entertaining and enjoyable read. My niece, for whom this book was bought, loved it and has asked for more and, therefore, I shall be buying (and reading) the rest in the series. So, 'Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries', here we come.
5 Stars.
La copertina flessibile ha la costina un po' rigida.
Per quanto riguarda il livello di inglese, trovo che sia molto fattibile (ci sono dei termini di slang, ma alcuni sono spiegati nel glossario in fondo).