The Case of the Blue Violet

Robin Stevens

Feb 2016 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

I am the Honourable Daisy Wells, President of the Detective Society, one of the greatest detectives ever known - and also a fourth former at Deepdean School for Girls.

Violet Darby - one of the Big Girls - recently asked me to solve a most puzzling romantic mystery. I knew I'd be able to crack the case, and I did, in just a day and a half. It was one of my greatest triumphs (Hazel Wong, my Vice-President and best friend, is telling me that this is boasting, but it is also the truth). Hazel didn't believe I would have the patience to write the account of it, but of course, she was wrong. I did write it down, and it came out very well.

I now, therefore, present to you: the Case of the Blue Violet.

Ratings and reviews

I really love Robin Stevens... even though this was a short story I couldn't stop reading it! I'm afraid I'm not add clever as Daisy and Hazel because I didn't figure it out but I really enjoyed it. I would highly recommend Robin Stevens' other Murder Mystery books too. You must read them!

It's short but really good. I've read all the other Murder Most Unladylike books but this time it was fun to read one in Daisy's point of view.

I was quite disappointed as the story is only 9 pages long, the storyline was quite dull as well. However, Robin Steven's storys are really very good and I would strongly recommend her books.

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.