Each new revelation builds upon the prior discovery until the tense, wonderfully eerie climax on a ramshackle amusement pier. In the forbidding, unwelcoming coastal town, Myrtle uncovers myriad disquieting mysteries. But the investigator herself is murdered, leaving Myrtle to find both the murderer and the jewel thief without assistance. When their train to the seaside is robbed, Myrtle is thrilled by the mentoring of a wonderful lady investigator. Myrtle’s governess, Miss Judson, usually supportive of Myrtle’s unconventional interests, is a willing collaborator in the effort to keep Myrtle away from crime. Horrors! He’s sending her off for “Family Amusements” at the seaside with Aunt Helena. Father thinks she should have a holiday, because a 12-year-old girl needs some time away from solving murders. She lives in Missouri.Morbid Myrtle, plucky aspiring investigator, must solve a dastardly railroad murder in late Victorian England. She has never had a governess, and no one has ever accused her of being irrepressible, but a teacher did once call her “argumentative”-which was entirely untrue, and she can prove it. Bunce grew up on a steady diet of Sherlock Holmes, Trixie Belden, and Quincy, M.E., and always played the lead prosecutor in mock trial. With sparkling wit and a tight, twisty plot, Premeditated Myrtle, the first in a series from an award-winning author, introduces a brilliant young investigator ready to take on hard cases and maddening Victorian rules for Young Ladies of Quality in order to earn her place among the most daring and acclaimed amateur detectives of her time or any other.Įlizabeth C. With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and find the killer, even if nobody else believes her - not even her father, the town prosecutor. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Introducing Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite new amateur detective: a wickedly smart twelve-year-old with a keen interest in criminology and a nose for murder. Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery #1)

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