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The mystery the clockwork sparrow by Kathrine Woodfine

"Stepping onto then shop floor was like stepping inside a chocolate box" You are cordially invited to attend the Grand Opening of Sinclair’s department store! Enter a world of bonbons, hats, perfumes and MYSTERIES around every corner. WONDER at the daring theft of the priceless CLOCKWORK SPARROW! TREMBLE as the most DASTARDLY criminals in London enact their wicked plans! GASP as our bold heroines, Miss Sophie Taylor and Miss Lilian Rose, CRACK CODES, DEVOUR ICED BUNS and vow to bring the villians to justice… rating:11+ pages:320 published: June 4th 2015 authors website:  http://katherinewoodfine.co.uk MY REVEIW: This book other page turning mystery from children's literature I was hooked from this first sentence. It is all set around in 1910 London in a department store called sinclair's with the heroines Sophie Taylor and Lillian rose.The wonderful thing about this was the codes you could crack making you feel like you were part of the story.The story r...

Murder most unladylike By Robin Stevens

Rating:11+ Pages:324 Published: 5th June 2014 Authors website:  http://robin-stevens.co.uk/ " Daisy wants me to explain what happened up to the to time of the murder she says that is what  proper detectives do."       Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secret detective agency, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't, really.) But then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym. She thinks it must all have been a terrible accident - but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now the girls  know  a murder must have taken place . . . and there's more than one person at Deepdean with a motive. Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve: they have to prove a murder happened in the first place. Determined to get to the ...