Mistletoe and Murder (#5 Murder Most Unladylike)

Author(s): Robin Stevens

9-12 Years Middle Readers

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes of its beautiful libraries and inviting tea-rooms - but there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College. Two days before Christmas, a brutal accident takes place - but the Detective Society suspect murder. Faced with fierce competition from a rival agency, they must use all their cunning and courage to find the killer (in time for Christmas Day, of course). The fabulously festive fifth mystery from the bestselling, award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike.


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Simply spiffing * Daily Mail * Fabulous * The Times * Superb * Telegraph * A superb puzzle . . . Splendidly seasonal * Metro * Nancy Drew meets the Chalet School in this clever crime novel set in the 1930s. Robin Stevens' period detail, strong characters and meticulous plotting come together in a satisfying story * Scotsman * Robin Stevens continues to impress * Booktrust * Festive, fun and full of mystery * Country Life *

Robin Stevens 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 achievable 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 went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked in children's publishing. She is now a full-time writer. Robin now lives in London with her pet bearded dragon, Watson.

General Fields

  • : 9780141369723
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Puffin
  • : 0.256
  • : September 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 22mm
  • : January 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Robin Stevens
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
  • : 384
  • : YFS
  • : B+W chapter head a/w, illustrated maps