Plus the girls’ late return means that Daisy’s lost her place on the equestrian team and has entirely lost out on any involvement in the school’s preparation for its 50th Anniversary weekend, to which various parents, relatives and school signatories are invited.Įverything changes during the Anniversary weekend when Beanie thinks she’s seen a man murder a woman in the nearby woods.

For starters, Daisy has been displaced as pre-eminent Fourth Former by newcomer Amina El Maghrabi from Egypt, whose gift for pranks and gracious behaviour to the shrimps means that even the Marys have transferred their devotion to her. Summer term has already begun at Deepdean School when Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong return and both feel oddly out of place. It’s 4th July 1936, 2 weeks after DEATH IN THE SPOTLIGHT. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can order Top Marks For Murder by Robin Stevens from Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. The girls are convinced THIS IS MURDER – and everything points to one of the parents.Īnd unless the killer is caught, DEEPDEAN WILL CLOSE FOREVER. Then a shocking incident takes place in the woods. You may also like Lori and Max, another female detective duo.Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are back at Deepdean School for Girls, where plans are underway for a most exciting event: the Anniversary Weekend.īut as parents arrive at Deepdean, LONG-BURIED RIVALRIES AND SECRETS begin to surface. For anyone new to these books, it can be read as a standalone, and if enjoyed, you will have the joy of seven more to read! The books have the feel of a quintessential Enid Blyton boarding school tale but with a great well-told Agatha Christie style plot.įor anyone who has read the first seven books, then Top Marks for Murder will be most welcome and will not disappoint. Each story is a classic boarding school, murder mystery, ‘whodunnit’ story, set in the 1930s. The Murder Most Unladylike series of books by Robin Stevens features the adventures of young detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, who are pupils at Deepdean School for Girls. From here the girls go into full investigation mode and with a murder on the premises the school becomes under threat of being closed for good. There is a buzz of preparations in the school for the big weekend, which will welcome in the parents of the girls at the boarding school.Īmidst this preparation, the five girls in the Detective Society, Hazel, Daisy, Lavinia, Beanie and Kitty, are in their dormitory when Beanie witnesses a shocking incident in the woods nearby.

In this story, the school is preparing for its fiftieth anniversary.

Top Marks for Murder is the eighth murder mystery for Hazel and Daisy and the third that takes place at their school Deepdean.

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