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The Case of the Drowned Pearl: World Book Day 2020

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The Case of the Drowned Pearl: World Book Day 2020 by Robin Stevens

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By Robin Stevens

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A thrilling mini Murder Most Unladylike mystery, specially written and published for World Book Day 2020.

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are best friends, schoolgirls – and detectives. And wherever they go, mysteries will find them… While on a seaside holiday with their friends George and Alexander, the Detective Society discover the body of famous swimmer Antonia Braithwaite – nicknamed The Pearl – on the beach.

Everyone presumes that she drowned accidentally – but how could such a famous swimmer have struggled to swim?

Even more mysteriously, three guests at the girls’ hotel all wanted Antonia dead…

Can the Detective Society solve this mystery? Or will they sink under the pressure?

Praise for the Murder Most Unladylike mysteries: ‘This is that rare thing: a series that gets better with every book’ Telegraph ‘Thrilling’ Guardian ‘A total delight’ Metro

Reviews

16 Aug 2024

I like how the junior pinkertons help the detective society with solving a murder

23 Jul 2024

It’s good

08 Aug 2023

Very good book, favourite character was Hazel. Thrilling action book with hints of romance in it. Leading to a surprising ending.

22 Jul 2023

EXCITING

17 Jun 2023

I liked how the two societies were kind of working together but at the same time they weren't. They were kind of a team, but secretly Daisy and George and maybe even Alexander were all thinking: we're not working together. Ultimately, I would recommend it but I've reread it lots of times so it gets a bit boring.

14 Sep 2022

Easy to read - a good 'smaller' book to get children interested in the series.

03 Sep 2022

I was not to excited to go bed and start reading it at the beginning but it got better and better. I also don’t really understand the tittle

24 Aug 2022

I really liked it because you have to try and figure out murders with the other detectives.
The story is fiction, The best person is Daisy because she like to make the questions.
YES my friend Gemma.

05 Aug 2022

I think this book is amazing!

30 Jul 2022

It was good i guess it was a good murder mystery.
Very good i recommend.

27 Jul 2022

Loved it

24 Jul 2022

Mysterious

12 Jul 2022

This book was really good and it was really fun to try and solve the problem and who was murdered

02 Sep 2021

I would recommend you only read this book when you have finished some of the other A Murder Most Unladylik ebooks as it includes characters without descriptions from this series. Its a short story format which i really enjoyed.

31 Aug 2021

It was so good!! My favourite character is Daisy because she is always on top of things. the murder reveal was so much of an OMG moment. I would recommend it to anyone who is in to murder mystery.

13 Aug 2021

Its about a suc sess ful swimmer who gets murdered and Hazel Daisy Alexander and george try to uncover the truth

10 Aug 2021

It's a great story

09 Aug 2021

I love the rest of the series and these didn’t disappoint

19 Jul 2021

It’s not bad. Recommend

18 Jan 2021

it is so mysterious

29 Dec 2020

I thought this was a quite interesting case of detective work.
My favourite character was Daisy because she liked being the leader of everything.
I might recommend this to someone else only if the like murder books and detective books.

29 Sep 2020

Interesting story with a twist. Overall a good book.

19 Sep 2020

Senorita Fifi Piano-key

Well, I thought that the story would be about a real pearl that drowns.
My favourite character was Daisy because I liked how she figured most of the case out and she was clever.I would recommend it to my friends because it's interesting,funny and a marvellous mystery book.

19 Sep 2020

Very good and very surprising.

07 Sep 2020

A possibility that it may seem scary, but not for me. An entertaining book that I have used to keep me going in a caravan on the weekend .

06 Sep 2020

My favourite character is Hazel

06 Sep 2020

Hazel and Daisy go on holiday with their grandparents and go to the beach. They did not expect the hotel to be bad, it was dark and dull. They found a dead body on the beach and worked out how he died.

03 Sep 2020

It was really good and my favourite character is Daisy because she's brave. There's a really unexpected twist at the end. I would definitely recommend it to someone else.

03 Sep 2020

On holiday at the seaside Hazel and Daisy, the Detective Society, find a dead body on a the beach. They soon realise this dead body belongs to a famous swimmer called Antonia Braithwaite. Peculiarly,
the Detective Society must team up with the Junior Pinkertons to solve the murder and get back to their summer holiday. My favourite character is Hazel as sometimes in the book she is very amusing and she is very perceptive. I would recommend this book for children who are 9 and over as it’s a very delightful and exciting book to read!!

02 Sep 2020

It is an amazing fiction book full of action and suspence. I really enjoyed it. I would recommened it to everyone.

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