However, all the other chapters were quite a lot of fun and along the way also quite educational! There is a list of female detective authors, there is a set of rules to write your own story (and instructions on why some rules are nonsense and should be ignored), Hazel and Daisy give some tips to start your own society, what equipment you need and how to write your journals, there is a list of inspiring unsolved crimes and of course a list of famous detectives.Īlong the way the author also explains why she wrote the stories and who her inspirations were. Plot-wise it's not adding anything and the short stories are amusing, but not really delivering the same thrill as the other novels. It's quite hard to review this book as it's a collection of a million-and-one things and it's only fun if you've read at least the first 4 books in the series (although reading the fifth too doesn't hurt) and if you really enjoyed those first 4 books.
Robin lives in England with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson. She then went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked at a children's publisher. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she’d get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn’t). When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achieveable option. When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up. She has been making up stories all her life. Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She is also the author of The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery.
Robin's books are: Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA), Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA), First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight and Top Marks for Murder.
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