![]() ![]() With the boisterous, expansive Chummy living up to his name, and Donald a surly presence in his brother’s shadow, feeling is generally that the younger Melling twin would be a more appropriate recipient of the wealth…and if you couldn’t spot the murder coming at this stage of the narrative, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you. The series may be designed to be comforting and familiar, but you don’t want to get too cozy…Ĭambridge, and Maudlin College thereof, will then be the background for much merriment in the run-up to Christmas, with the only mark against comity being twins Chummy and Donald Melling - the former missing out by a mere five minutes on the fortune that Donald is due to inherit upon achieving his majority on Christmas day itself. ![]() The girls have differing perspectives on this meeting - Hazel is giddy just at the thought of Alexander, whereas Daisy resents what she sees as the intrusion of the Pinkertons into their to previous cases - and it provides a nice tension at the heart of the opening of the book. It is also, Hazel is very excited to note, a chance for the girls to meet up again with Alexander - who helped them in First Class Murder (2014) - and to meet for the first time his friend George, with whom he has formed a detective society called the Junior Pinkertons. This fifth entry in the series sees teenage sleuths Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong head to a gelid, frosty Cambridge to spend Christmas with Daisy’s undergraduate brother Bertie. ![]()
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