How to Get Away with Myrtle
How to Get Away with Myrtle
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Workman Pub. Co.
Just the Series: Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Vol. 2   

Series and Publisher: Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery   

Annotation: Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite amateur detective, is back to solve another murder (committed on a train headed for an English seaside village with a tragic past) in the second installment of the delightful Victorian cozy mystery series for middle-grade readers.
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #240001
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Workman Pub. Co.
Copyright Date: 2020
Edition Date: 2020 Release Date: 10/06/20
Pages: 346 pages
ISBN: 1-616-20919-4
ISBN 13: 978-1-616-20919-3
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2020018053
Dimensions: 22 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist (Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 CDT 2020)

It hasn't been long since Myrtle Hardcastle solved her first murder (Premeditated Myrtle, 2020), when another auspiciously falls in her lap. It's just the thing she needs to spice up an otherwise dull and wholesome seaside holiday with Aunt Helena and Miss Judson, governess and partner in crime solving. The dastardly act occurs on the train to Fairhaven, shortly after the theft of a bejeweled tiara. That the murder victim was the insurance agent protecting this tiara seems too convenient to be coincidence. Myrtle immediately springs into action, securing the scene until the local constabulary can take over matters. Unfortunately (or is it fortunately?), the locals are ill prepared for dealing with such serious crimes, allowing Myrtle to easily insinuate herself into the investigation. Bunce fully utilizes the story's classic mystery settings (the train, a grand hotel full of unusual guests, and a small town of memorable characters) as she spiritedly chucks red herrings at readers and Myrtle alike. Humor and wit make the narrative sparkle, and, happily, Myrtle is as irrepressible as ever.

Kirkus Reviews

Morbid Myrtle, plucky aspiring investigator, must solve a dastardly railroad murder in late Victorian England.Poor Myrtle. Father thinks she should have a holiday, because a 12-year-old girl needs some time away from solving murders. Horrors! He's sending her off for "Family Amusements" at the seaside with Aunt Helena. Myrtle's governess, Miss Judson, usually supportive of Myrtle's unconventional interests, is a willing collaborator in the effort to keep Myrtle away from crime. When their train to the seaside is robbed, Myrtle is thrilled by the mentoring of a wonderful lady investigator. But the investigator herself is murdered, leaving Myrtle to find both the murderer and the jewel thief without assistance. In the forbidding, unwelcoming coastal town, Myrtle uncovers myriad disquieting mysteries. Each new revelation builds upon the prior discovery until the tense, wonderfully eerie climax on a ramshackle amusement pier. The sleuthing is heartwarming and funny, featuring strong women and girls, packed with characters who genuinely care about each other. Myrtle's story would be an undiluted treat, if only there weren't plot points hinging upon insidious stereotypes about how disabled people's bodies function and others' right to know details about their abilities. Myrtle and most characters are White; Miss Judson is a Black woman from French Guiana; and a local teen photographer who befriends Myrtle is brown-skinned.A delightful heroine and an exciting mystery mostly manage to outshine tired, harmful disability tropes. (historical note) (Historical mystery. 10-12)

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Word Count: 73,161
Reading Level: 5.8
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.8 / points: 12.0 / quiz: 511011 / grade: Middle Grades

An Edgar® Award Winning Series

Before the train has left the station, Victorian England’s most accomplished new detective already is on a suspect’s trail, and readers will be delighted to travel along.
 
Myrtle Hardcastle has no desire to go on a relaxing travel excursion with her aunt Helena when there are More Important things to be done at home, like keeping close tabs on criminals and murder trials. Unfortunately, she has no say in the matter. So off Myrtle goes—with her governess, Miss Judson, and cat, Peony, in tow—on a fabulous private railway coach headed for the English seaside.
 
Myrtle is thrilled to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Bloom, a professional insurance investigator aboard to protect the priceless Northern Lights tiara. But before the train reaches its destination, both the tiara and Mrs. Bloom vanish. When Myrtle arrives, she and Peony discover a dead body in the baggage car. Someone has been murdered—with Aunt Helena’s sewing shears.
 
The trip is derailed, the local police are inept, and Scotland Yard is in no rush to arrive. What’s a smart, bored Young Lady of Quality stranded in a washed-up carnival town to do but follow the evidence to find out which of her fellow travelers is a thief and a murderer?


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