The ninth and final novel in the number-one bestselling,award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series.
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt,taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get,instead,is murder.
Also travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the Breath of Life: a group of genteel English ladies and gentlemen,who believe themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient pharaohs. Three days into the cruise their leader is found dead in her cabin,stabbed during the night.
It soon becomes clear to Daisy and Hazel that the victim's timid daughter is being framed - and they begin to investigate their most difficult case yet.
But there is danger all around,and only one of the Detective Society will make it home alive...
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKISBN: 9780241419809Number of pages: 400Weight: 277 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
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'Few series can maintain the thrills and pace over nine books,but Stevens has done so with aplomb...Fiendishly clever plotting,a gorgeous Egyptian backdrop,a startling denouement and romance for both our heroines. A triumphant finale for a much-loved series.'-The Bookseller
Robin Stevens
One of Waterstones booksellers'favourite children's writers,Robin Stevens is best known as the author of the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries,starring dynamic duo Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong as well as The Guggenheim Mystery and the Deepdean Mini-Mysteries.
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