Sleuthing at Sea With Plenty of Style
A sea voyage proves the ideal setting for another clever mystery, full of danger, atmosphere and satisfying deductions. Robin Stevens keeps everything readable and sharp, so it’s easy to recommend this to readers who enjoy detective fiction with memorable settings and strong character chemistry.
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Murder Most Unladylike: Death Sets Sail
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Sleuthing at Sea With Plenty of Style
A sea voyage proves the ideal setting for another clever mystery, full of danger, atmosphere and satisfying deductions. Robin Stevens keeps everything readable and sharp, so it’s easy to recommend this to readers who enjoy detective fiction with memorable settings and strong character chemistry.
- Book Synopsis
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*The number one bestseller!*
The ninth and final novel in the bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series.
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get, instead, is murder.
Also travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the Breath of Life: a group of genteel English ladies and gentlemen, who believe themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient pharaohs.
Three days into the cruise their leader is found dead in her cabin, stabbed during the night.
It soon becomes clear to Daisy and Hazel that the victim's timid daughter is being framed - and they begin to investigate their most difficult case yet.
But there is danger all around, and only one of the Detective Society will make it home alive...
Ideal for readers who:
- Are partial to river-boat mysteries with exotic settings and a shadow of real peril
- Might be drawn in by Egypt, a murdered leader and a daughter being framed
- Like their detective fiction touched with atmosphere, travel and a hint of the theatrical
- Need a finale with proper stakes and a stronger sense of danger than usual
- About The Author
- 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. 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 she worked at a children's publisher. Robin is now a full-time author and the creator of the internationally award-winning and bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, starring Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, and the brand-new Ministry of Unladylike Activity. She still hopes she might get the chance to do some detecting of her own one day. She lives in England.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780241419809
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Puffin, (06 August 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 385
- Weight
- 268 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 195 x 128 x 26 mm
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