Robin Stevens in conversation with Janice Hallett at St Giles in the Fields, London

This year Puffin Books will be celebrating the ten year anniversary of Robin Steven’s award-winning and bestselling debut, Murder Most Unladylike – starring the iconic school girl detective duo Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong.

Join Robin Stevens, author of the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series, at this very special event to celebrate a decade of Murder Most Unladylike, as she looks back to where it all began as well as what’s next for her favourite characters.

 

The ten year anniversary edition will feature a new introduction from Robin as well as a striking, character-silhouette stencilled edge and will be a must-have for fans!

 

Combining Golden Age Crime with boarding school nostalgia, Murder Most Unladylike became the first book in a trailblazing series that would go on to define the children’s murder mystery genre, selling over three million copies world-wide and translated into twenty languages. The book follows Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong as they set up their very own secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, and struggle inicially to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.)

 

Then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym. She assumes it was a terrible accident - but she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve: they have to prove one happened in the first place.

Robin Stevens was born in California but grew up in Oxford, directly opposite the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. A life-long fan of detective fiction she is best known as the author of the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, starring dynamic duo Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong. She is also the author of The Ministry of Unladylike Acitivity series and The Guggenheim Mystery. Robin still hopes she might get the chance to do some detecting of her own one day. She lives in Oxford.

Janice Hallett studied English at University College London and spent several years as a magazine editor, winning two awards for journalism. She then worked in government communications for the Cabinet Office, Home Office and Department for International Development. After gaining an MA in screenwriting at Royal Holloway, she co-wrote the feature film Retreat and went on to write the Shakespearean stage comedy NetherBard, as well as a number of other plays for London's new-writing theatres. Her debut novel, The Appeal, was a Sunday Times bestseller, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month. Her second novel, The Twyford Code, was published in 2022 and was an instant bestseller. When not indulging her passion for global travel, she is based in West London.