The idea of setting a murder mystery in a boarding school is a ripping one, for it’s a closed world with a strict sense of order. The reader isn’t reaching for adjectives like ‘jolly’ and ‘wholesome’ to describe the school, not when there’s reference to a girl who committed suicide within the memory of some of the pupils at school, while the new Art and Music Master sounds like a fox in a henhouse. There’s a midnight feast and there are pashes, but there’s also talk of ‘cannodling’ between older girls and between mistresses.
The reader will already have picked up on the fact that Deapdean is not quite like the schools in the Angela Brazil books that Hazel owns, although it’s a generic staple that boarding schools aren’t like storybook boarding schools. It’s an unpleasant job at times, for it began when she discovered a dead body in the school Gym.
Murder Most Unladylike: Robin Stevens Corgi 2014īefore Daisy Wells and narrator Hazel Wong have had a change to get bored of their secret Detective Society at Deepdean School, its secretary, Hazel is writing up a real case in her case book.
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