![]() May will be 9 when World War Two starts, and about 10 when the series begins. Budding super sleuths will love the six new mini-mysteries in Robin Stevens new book Once Upon a Crime. About the author (2018) Robin Stevens was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived.There will be some other characters who have previously been in the Murder Most Unladylike series.There will be three detectives in this series instead of two in the Murder Most Unladylike series. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will take place in the same world as the Murder Most Unladylike series.But the travelling school that the girls attend and that Libby’s aunt heads up is about to drop into Edinburgh and a new mystery involving Connie’s family awaits them. A fiendishly plotted, astutely observed novel thats equally perfect for avid Stevens fans and new readers. Trained up at the Ministry, they soon embark upon their first mission: masquerading as evacuees, they are sent to a wealthy manor house to spy on the owner, who is suspected of working for the enemy.Īnd then the murder happens. Libby and her aunt are spending Christmas with Libby’s friend Connie at her family’s mansion in the Scottish Highlands. And who better to become a spy than a child? A child can go places, see things and listen in on conversations in a way that no adult ever can.Įnter May Wong and her friends. Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies. ![]()
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