Haha, you’d have to meet me and ask for one! They’re to make sure fans and teachers know how to get in touch with me if they want 😀 Safe in the stalls, I suddenly felt the dazzling excitement of the theatre again. The golden arch over the stage shone like a promise and the velvety darkness of the wings was heavy with the most thrilling mystery. In the middle of it all, Daisy seemed to glow. She stood with her hands clasped and her feet positioned as though she was about to do ballet, and she was beaming. Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge- acting. Aunt Lucy held up her hand. ‘Wait,’ she said. ‘I’ve had a thought. Let me make a few telephone calls.’

Hilda Dove wasn’t born Hilda Dove, of course. Most actors choose better names when they go on the stage – who’d go and see a leading lady called Bertha Jones? And I know because of Bertie,’ said Daisy, waving her hand airily. ‘He’s quite obsessed, and I steal his theatre magazines. After all, you never know what knowledge may turn out to be useful – and so it has proved.’ He pointed out the actors who would be playing the Montagues and the Capulets, Paris, the apothecary – and at last he introduced Rose. As he did so, it was as though a bright light had been thrown on her. It was clear that she was the star. Just after we arrived, Aunt Lucy found the notebook full of codes I have been practising (and trying to make Daisy practise), and the next day my desk was filled with more code books than I had ever thought existed. Does not know her own name,’ said Miss Crompton. ‘Excellent. Begin your recitation, if you please.’Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale.” Once we were through the stage door and past Jim and his book, and Bridget had waved us off each morning and gone to run her mysterious errands for Uncle Felix and Aunt Lucy, we were swallowed up in the strange world of the Rue. It became all-consuming, and I almost forgot, for the time I was there, that the rest of London existed.

Daisy and Hazel are best friends who go to Deepdean school but are taking a break. They are staying at Daisy’s uncle and aunt’s house and decide to go to the theatre in their free time. But they love solving mysteries and call themselves the detective society. Fresh from their adventure in Hong Kong, Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are off to the Rue Theatre in London to face an entirely new challenge: acting. For a while, I could not think what it was – but then I realized. The people on this stage might all be grown-ups (or at least older than us), but the way they were chattering and clustering together was exactly like a group of Deepdean pupils at the beginning of a new term. They had already made their alliances like the second form had when I first arrived at Deepdean. At the Rue, Daisy and I were the new girls. She is doing such valuable work bringing younger LGBT role models to the world of MG/YA. Daisy and Hazel are 15 now - I can't wait to see where their next adventure takes them!My good sir,' he said, 'do you know to whom you are speaking? I am the Prince of Bengal and these are my friends, the Princess of Kowloon and the Duke of Massachusettes. We are waiting for my father, the Maharajah, to come out of this bookshop so he can take us to the Ritz for tea. Do you intend to prevent us from going about our business?” I thought that this was a brilliant book! I have already read the first six in the Murder Most Unladylike series and I had challenged myself to finish the series over the summer. It was interesting for it to be set in a theatre and I agree that a theatre is an excellent place to hold a fictional murder case! As always with Robin Stevens, it was gripping until the end and I thoroughly enjoyed going on the case with Daisy and Hazel. As mystery is my favourite genre (particularly murder mysteries) this I loved that we see Alexander and George again. And that they had the chance to help out the girls with the case. Our girls are also learning that growing up isn't always the most fun thing. For instance while in previous books they could still get away with things, they are now growing up. Which means a whole slew of things. For instance they can't act like children, they are now often seen as young ladies. Hiding? Isn't getting easier, especially not for Hazel. I am glad that both are learning other skills. Hazel is learning codes and Daisy is trying out disguises (Hazel's reactions to them had me laughing).

During a short period of recuperation from Deepdean School after their Hong Kong adventures, the girls are reluctantly taken on as bit-part actors by the Rue’s intimidating Miss Crompton at the request of Daisy’s Aunt Lucy, with whom they are staying. But as rehearsals get underway, the girls soon discover that the large cast has a history of jealousies, prejudices, power struggles and nasty pranks, and when the unpopular leading lady is found murdered the entire company falls under suspicion.I know you think that every dreadful thing that happens in the world is because you didn't stop it, but the truth is that dreadful things would happen anyway, even if you had never been born. The excellent fact is that you were born, and that means that you have the chance to make the world a slightly less horrid place”