![]() Her family life was also similar to those classic detectives, since she lived with her father and her mother died when she was a child. She reminds me of Nancy Drew and Flavia de Luce. With the help of her governess, Miss Judson, Myrtle investigates the murder of her neighbour. They think it was natural causes but there are too many clues that suggest to Myrtle that this was murder. She calls the police and they find that her elderly neighbour has died. One evening, she notices some strange activity at her neighbour’s house. Her father is a prosecutor and her mother studied medicine. In 1893, Myrtle Hardcastle is a twelve-year-old girl who loves to study crimes. ![]() With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and find the killer, even if nobody else believes her - not even her father, the town prosecutor. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Genre: Middle Grade, Mystery, Historical Fiction Title: Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries #1) ![]()
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