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. 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 has been making up stories all her 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. 'Friendship, boarding school and a murder worthy of Agatha Christie' The Bookseller About the Author But will they succeed? And can their friendship stand the test? Review 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, scheming and intuition they can muster. Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve: they have to prove a murder happened in the first place. and there's more than one person at Deepdean with a motive. Now the girls know a murder must have taken place.

She thinks it must all have been a terrible accident - but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Which they don't, really.)īut 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 deadly secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate.

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