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A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Collection (Boxed Set): Murder Is Bad Manners; Poison Is Not Polite; First Class Murder; Jolly Foul Play; Mistletoe and Murder
Fans of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and Enola Holmes will love the first five books in the exciting Wells & Wong historical mystery series, now available together in one collectible paperback boxed set!
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong both have a penchant for solving mysteries. In fact, outspoken Daisy is a self-described Sherlock Holmes, and she appoints wallflower Hazel as her own personal Watson when they form their own (secret!) detective agency. The only problem? There is nothing to investigate at the perfectly proper Deepdean School for Girls they both attend.
Or is there?
Follow Daisy and Hazel as they put their deductive skills and friendship to the test to solve a series of murders most unladylike involving a teacher’s disappearing body, a poisoning at a high society tea party, a sinister slaying aboard the Orient Express, a brutal bully’s demise at their school’s Bonfire Night, and a holiday homicide in the stairwells of Cambridge.
This entertaining paperback boxed set
Murder Is Bad Manners
Poison Is Not Polite
First Class Murder
Jolly Foul Play
Mistletoe and Murder
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong both have a penchant for solving mysteries. In fact, outspoken Daisy is a self-described Sherlock Holmes, and she appoints wallflower Hazel as her own personal Watson when they form their own (secret!) detective agency. The only problem? There is nothing to investigate at the perfectly proper Deepdean School for Girls they both attend.
Or is there?
Follow Daisy and Hazel as they put their deductive skills and friendship to the test to solve a series of murders most unladylike involving a teacher’s disappearing body, a poisoning at a high society tea party, a sinister slaying aboard the Orient Express, a brutal bully’s demise at their school’s Bonfire Night, and a holiday homicide in the stairwells of Cambridge.
This entertaining paperback boxed set
Murder Is Bad Manners
Poison Is Not Polite
First Class Murder
Jolly Foul Play
Mistletoe and Murder
1776 pages, Paperback
Published August 9, 2022
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About the author
Robin Stevens
55 books2,645 followersRobin's books are: Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA), Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA), First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight and Top Marks for Murder. She is also the author of The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery.
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. When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achieveable option.
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 then went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked at a children's publisher.
Robin lives in England with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson.
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. When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achieveable option.
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 then went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked at a children's publisher.
Robin lives in England with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson.
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May 26, 2024
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I first found the Wells and Wong Series (by Robin Stevens) sometime last spring--sometime around when I discovered the Charlotte Holmes series. Probably because of my search history. And probably because the Wells and Wong series is another sort of Sherlock Holmes fanfiction-type series.
Daisy Wells is your Sherlock Holmes: very serious, very down-to-business, too smart for her own good, secretly emotional, and loves a good murder.
Hazel Wong is our beloved Dr. Watson: very emotional, the more 'human' of the two, a little bit of an outcast, the writer and dedicated documenter.
The series starts with "Murder is Bad Manners" (I love these titles). Daisy and Hazel start up their own detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls , but they struggle with finding a good mystery...until Hazel finds the dead body of their science teacher.
How will they handle their first real mystery? Can they solve it before the police? Will their friendship stand the test?
Yes, Deepdean School for Girls is a finishing school, but its 1934, so go with it. Besides, Stevens gives us a very nice feminist twist to it all with Daisy and Hazel being so independent and stubborn and runners of their own agency. Where they aren't given proper respect, they take it, like proper girls--women.
Each book has a new setting (The Wells estate, the Orient Express, etc.). Each book has a new murder. Each book Daisy and Hazel kick ass.
I'm only halfway through the series right now, but I can't get enough of these two amazing girls.
They might be 14. They might be females in a male-dominated world. They might be ... well a lot of things. In the real world, this would probably never happen. But neither would Nancy Drew or Scooby Doo. Suspend your disbelief, roll with it, thank me later.
(1) Murder is Bad Manners
(2) Poison is Not Polite
(3) First Class Murder
(4) Jolly Foul Play
(4) Mistletoe and Murder
#murderisbadmanners #poisonisnotpolite #firstclassmurder #jollyfoulplay #mistletoeandmurder
#robinstevens #sirarthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #bookstagram #books #bookphotography #ilovebooks
I first found the Wells and Wong Series (by Robin Stevens) sometime last spring--sometime around when I discovered the Charlotte Holmes series. Probably because of my search history. And probably because the Wells and Wong series is another sort of Sherlock Holmes fanfiction-type series.
Daisy Wells is your Sherlock Holmes: very serious, very down-to-business, too smart for her own good, secretly emotional, and loves a good murder.
Hazel Wong is our beloved Dr. Watson: very emotional, the more 'human' of the two, a little bit of an outcast, the writer and dedicated documenter.
The series starts with "Murder is Bad Manners" (I love these titles). Daisy and Hazel start up their own detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls , but they struggle with finding a good mystery...until Hazel finds the dead body of their science teacher.
How will they handle their first real mystery? Can they solve it before the police? Will their friendship stand the test?
Yes, Deepdean School for Girls is a finishing school, but its 1934, so go with it. Besides, Stevens gives us a very nice feminist twist to it all with Daisy and Hazel being so independent and stubborn and runners of their own agency. Where they aren't given proper respect, they take it, like proper girls--women.
Each book has a new setting (The Wells estate, the Orient Express, etc.). Each book has a new murder. Each book Daisy and Hazel kick ass.
I'm only halfway through the series right now, but I can't get enough of these two amazing girls.
They might be 14. They might be females in a male-dominated world. They might be ... well a lot of things. In the real world, this would probably never happen. But neither would Nancy Drew or Scooby Doo. Suspend your disbelief, roll with it, thank me later.
(1) Murder is Bad Manners
(2) Poison is Not Polite
(3) First Class Murder
(4) Jolly Foul Play
(4) Mistletoe and Murder
#murderisbadmanners #poisonisnotpolite #firstclassmurder #jollyfoulplay #mistletoeandmurder
#robinstevens #sirarthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #bookstagram #books #bookphotography #ilovebooks
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