Editions

Jolly Foul Play

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141369693

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 255g

  • RRP: £6.99

Jolly Foul Play

  • A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery

Join Daisy and Hazel on their fourth mystery in the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series!

'Ripping good fun' The Times

'Thrilling' Guardian

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As they return to Deepdean for a new school term, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are faced with some big changes.

For one, there's a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects- and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs.

Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found - murdered.

Many girls at Deepdean had reason to hate Elizabeth, but who might have committed such foul play?

Could the murder be linked to the secrets and scandals, scribbled on scraps of paper, that are suddenly appearing around the school?

And with their own friendship falling to pieces, how will Daisy and Hazel solve this mystery?

'Top class' Financial Times

'A delight' Daily Mail

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141369693

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 255g

  • RRP: £6.99

Reviews

  • Jolly gripping stuff

    The Times

  • Another cracking mystery

    Sunday Express

  • It's Agatha Christie for nine-year-olds with psychological insight from our Chinese heroine. Golly!

    Spectator

  • Enough twists and turns to satisfy young readers . . . An exciting story

    Sun

  • In her Murder Most Unladylike series, Robin Stevens has cleverly created a crossbreed of the detective and boarding school genres. The closeted, parent-free environment of Deepdean School for Girls provides a fertile breeding ground for intrigue and speculation. In this fourth title, the head girl Elizabeth - a tyrant in a gym slip - is murdered on Bonfire Night

    Telegraph

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About the Author

Robin Stevens

Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She has been making up stories all her life. 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 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). She went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then she worked at a children's publisher. Robin is now a full-time author, and her books are both award-winning and bestselling. She lives in Oxford.

Robin Stevens

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Games & activities

Host your own Detective Society Forever party!

To celebrate the last mystery in the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, we’ve got all you need to throw your own – socially distanced, of course – Detective Society Forever party.
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Inspiration

Robin Stevens: 'It matters desperately to me that Daisy is queer'

Avid Murder Most Unladylike fans will already know that in Death in the Spotlight Detective Daisy Wells has her first crush – and it’s on a girl. Here, Robin reveals what it meant to her to write a gay character, while Pride in Publishing’s Charlie Morris, LGBTQ+ activist, describes what this moment means for queer readers everywhere.
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Games & activities

Dress up as a detective from Murder Most Unladylike

Have you always dreamed of being a real-life super sleuth? Then why not try this fun DIY costume and dress up as detectives Daisy or Hazel from Murder Most Unladylike, the crime-busting detective duo.

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