Murder is Bad Manners

I first found the Wells and Wong Series (by Robin Stevens) sometime last spring--sometime around when I discovered the Charlotte Holmes series. Probably because of my search history. And probably because the Wells and Wong series is another sort of Sherlock Holmes fanfiction-type series. 

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.

The series starts with "Murder is Bad Manners" (I love these titles). Daisy and Hazel start up their own detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls , but they struggle with finding a good mystery...until Hazel finds the dead body of their science teacher. 

How will they handle their first real mystery? Can they solve it before the police? Will their friendship stand the test?

Yes, Deepdean School for Girls is a finishing school, but its 1934, so go with it. Besides, Stevens gives us a very nice feminist twist to it all with Daisy and Hazel being so independent and stubborn and runners of their own agency. Where they aren't given proper respect, they take it, like proper girls--women.

Each book has a new setting (The Wells estate, the Orient Express, etc.). Each book has a new murder. Each book Daisy and Hazel kick ass.

I'm only halfway through the series right now, but I can't get enough of these two amazing girls.

They might be 14. They might be females in a male-dominated world. They might be ... well a lot of things. In the real world, this would probably never happen. But neither would Nancy Drew or Scooby Doo. Suspend your disbelief, roll with it, thank me later.

(1) Murder is Bad Manners

(2) Poison is Not Polite

(3) First Class Murder

(4) Jolly Foul Play

(4) Mistletoe and Murder

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