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Mistletoe and Murder: Robin Stevens (Puffin 2016)
A Murder Most Unladylike/Wells and Wong mystery


As alluded to at the end of the previous book in the series, ‘Jolly Foul Play’, Hazel and Daisy go to Cambridge for Christmas, meeting all the members of the Junior Pinkerton society. Inevitably, they come across a mystery or two and it’s no surprise that murder is committed soon thereafter.

This was my Christmas Day book – I’d pretty much decided to read it then when I bought my copy. I read it in three sittings, and I’m still trying to decide what I made of it. Read more... )
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Death on the Cherwell: Mavis Doriel Hay, 2014, The British Library

Four female undergraduate students from Persephone College, Oxford University, are in the process of setting up a secret society. Its main purpose is Read more... )
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The Scholarship Girl at Cambridge: Josephine Elder Girls Gone By Publishers 2012

In this sequel to The Scholarship Girl, (I wrote about it in passing here) we Read more... )

I read the introduction etc after the main story. A short story by Joesphine Elder is included where a bunch of schoolgirls get their comeuppance - suggesting again the paucity of university stories for girls, even by this author, because you'd have thought GGBP would have put in a story of university life were a suitable one available.

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