Jolly Foul Play: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery
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Authors: Robin Stevens
Contents
Part Four: The Detective Society in Danger
Part Seven: The Detective Society Save the Day
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new school term, but nothing is the same. There’s a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects – and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs.
Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found – murdered.
Many girls at Deepdean had reason to hate Elizabeth, but who might have committed such foul play? Could the murder be linked to the secrets and scandals, scribbled on scraps of paper, that are suddenly appearing around the school? And with their own friendship falling to pieces, how will Daisy and Hazel solve this mystery?
To my parents.
Everything I write is really for you –
this book especially so.
THE STAFFMiss Barnard –
Headmistress
Miss Lappet –
History and Latin mistress
Mr MacLean –
Reverend
Mademoiselle Renauld, ‘Mamzelle’ –
French mistress
Miss Runcible –
Science mistress
Miss Morris –
Music and Art mistress
Miss Dodgson –
English mistress
Miss Talent –
Games mistress
Mrs Minn, ‘Minny’ –
Nurse
Mr Jones –
Handyman
Matron –
Matron
Daisy Wells –
Fourth Former and President of the Wells & Wong Detective Society
Hazel Wong –
Fourth Former and Vice-President and Secretary of the Wells & Wong Detective Society
Elizabeth Hurst
Florence Hamersley
Lettice Prestwich
Una Dichmann
Enid Gaines
Margaret Dolliswood
Pippa Daventry
Alice Murgatroyd
Astrid Frith
Heather Montefiore
Emmeline Moss
Jennifer Stone
Elsie Drew-Peters
Lavinia Temple –
Assistant and Friend of the Detective Society
Rebecca ‘Beanie’ Martineau –
Assistant and Friend of the Detective Society
Kitty Freebody –
Assistant and Friend of the Detective Society
Clementine Delacroix
Sophie Croke-Finchley
Rose Pritchett
Jose Pritchett
Binny Freebody
Martha Grey
Alma Collingwood
The Marys
Betsy North
Emily Dow
Charlotte Waiting
Being an account of
The Case of the Murder of Elizabeth Hurst,
an investigation by the Wells and Wong Detective Society.
Written by Hazel Wong
(Detective Society Vice-President and Secretary), aged 14.
Begun Wednesday 6
th
November 1935.
We were all looking up, and so we missed the murder.
I have never seen Daisy so furious. She has been grinding her teeth (so hard that
my
teeth ache in sympathy) and saying, ‘Oh, Hazel! How could we not notice it? We were
on the spot
!’
You see, Daisy needs to know things, and see everything, and get in everywhere. Being reminded that despite all the measures she puts in place (having informants in the younger years, ingratiating herself with the older girls and Jones the handyman and the mistresses), there are still things going on at Deepdean that she does not understand – well, that has put her in an even worse mood than the one she has been in lately.
