Scholastic Murder Most Unladylike #5: Mistletoe and Murder
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Brand: Scholastic
Description: A festive frolic with your favourite boarding school sleuths. Put the crime into Crimbo!. Scholastic Murder Most Unladylike #5: Mistletoe and Murder - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 112356
ISBN: 9780141369723
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Author: M. Dowden
Rating: 5
Review: I must admit that I have enjoyed this series of books immensely, and as Christmas will soon be upon us, I felt it was time to read this particular book again. Daisy and Hazel are going to spend Christmas 1935 in Cambridge. Daisy has an aunt at the ladies’ college so accommodation is arranged, and her brother is staying over the festive period at one of the colleges, so they will be able to see each other. If this is the first book in the series you are starting with then please be assured that it is a standalone novel, although of course there are references at times to past cases and events. Those who are already familiar with the series, will be fully aware that death seems to follow our two intrepid schoolgirls around. Once again then we have a tale that is very much in the vein of the Golden Age with murder at the heart of the mystery. I like the fact that near the beginning we see that the girls are reading Dorothy L Sayers’ Gaudy Night, which although that book does not have a murder in it, does have malicious pranks and such like, and we certainly see that there are some here, all apparently played on Donald, an eldest twin, who on Christmas Day, which is also his birthday, will inherit a vast fortune, much to the chagrin of his slightly younger twin brother. What then seems to be a series of rather nasty practical jokes then turns into murder, but with a prime suspect in sight, things soon go awry, and our two girls find themselves competing with, and then teaming up with another detection group amongst some of the male students at Cambridge. This is relatively fast paced, has action and daring exploits along with the mystery, and so there is more than enough to keep younger minds entertained, and of course to keep us older readers hooked. With a whiff of romance, there is also racism brought up here, as Hazel is not the only Chinese person here, and there are also Indians at the college where the incidents occur. There is also mention of gender inequality. After the story the author does explain what alterations have been made, because some college names have been altered, and so on. In all though this is as good, if not better than some of the stories that were produced in this country during the Golden Age, and here has the extra appeal that will come to children as they read this, of younger detective heroes.
Author: Jo Farr
Rating: 4
Review: This book is probably my least favourite in the series and might be a little bit of a disappointment after Jolly foul play (me, my sister and my best friends favourite in the series) But don't be put off! In this book Daisy and Hazel go to Daisy's brothers collage for ANOTHER try at having a PEACEFUL holiday with George and Alexander. But Alas the four children find themselves mixed up in more thrilling crime! They discover who has comitted the murder in no time! But it's a big suprise!
