Once Upon a Crime: Delicious Mysteries and Deadly Murders from the Detective Society

I have always looooooved Robin Steven's A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery series (or the Wells and Wong series). It's a TAD confusing between the two different editions (UK and US), but I'm determined to eventually figure it all out. Either way, I got an email from Amazon the other day saying that Robin Stevens had a new book out: "Once Upon a Crime: Delicious Mysteries and Deadly Murders from the Detective Society." And I was, obviously, hooked.

["Take one last dive into the pages of Hazel’s casebook and solve six new mini mysteries in this short story companion to the internationally bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series!

Between their high-profile murder mysteries, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong tackle many other cases, like the Case of the Second Scream on the high seas and the Case of the Uninvited Guest at Uncle Felix and Aunt Lucy’s wedding. They compete with the Junior Pinkertons to solve the Hound of Weston School and humor Hazel’s tagalong little sister in the Case of the Deadly Flat. They even put their code-cracking skills to the test to catch a thief in the Case of the Missing Treasure and find their holiday interrupted by murder in the Case of the Drowned Pearl.

These riveting new mini mysteries are perfect for fans and budding members of the Detective Society."]

I looooove Sherlock Holmes, and I'm constantly excited to see the numerous retellings. Daisy Wells is your Sherlock Holmes: very serious, very down-to-business, too smart for her own good, secretly emotional, and loves a good murder. Hazel Wong is our beloved Dr. Watson: very emotional, the more 'human' of the two, a little bit of an outcast, the writer and dedicated documenter.

These short stories take place in between the full-length novels, so a lot of them talk about a mystery they just solved or start setting up some plot for an upcoming novel. They had a lot of old characters come back (George, Alexander, Aunt Lucy, Uncle Felix, Bridgette, and more).

A definite read (though I recommend reading the full-length novels first).

Quote of the Day: "'I am never ordinary, but I shall be ordinarily brilliant.'"

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