Five-star review of Once Upon a Crime by Robin Stevens
This collection of short stories tells the tales of a few of
the murders and mysteries solved by Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong intermixed
chronologically with novels in the Murder Most Unladylike series. The two
founders of the Detective Society now in their teens in 1930’s England. There
are also one story featuring their friends George and Alexander, the Junior
Pinkertons, and another long one starring Hazel’s 10-year-old sister May and
taking place at the start of WWII. May has helped Daisy and Hazel before but
this one was solved through her own reasoning and actions. I’m now looking
forward to reading the first full-length novel about May and her exploits. Each
of the stories in this collection is good, written from the POV of one of the
protagonists with the proper word choices for someone their age. They were each
unpredictable and satisfying.
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