![]() ![]() ![]() In doing so, they self-consciously overturn implicit and explicit hierarchies between adults and children, proving themselves to be more capable sleuths than professional police officers, as well as challenging other kinds of authority figures, especially parents and teachers. Robin Stevens, Death Sets Sail (London: Puffin, 2020)ĭaisy Wells and Hazel Wong, schoolgirl detectives in the late 1930s (the Golden Age of both Crime Fiction and School Stories), are repeatedly told not to be ridiculous: schoolgirls don’t solve murders! Across the nine books of Robin Stevens’ A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery series, though, Daisy and Hazel make the decision *to be ridiculous* and solve at least nine murder mysteries, as well as sundry lesser crimes. ![]()
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