The Case of the Blue Violet: A Murder Most Unladylike Mini Mystery Page 3

  It seemed to me that she could – and that she was. Elizabeth had committed no crime apart from nastiness. Her blackmail was so subtle that there was nothing we could pin on her, nothing we could detect. In fact the Detective Society had no cases at all this term, apart from the strange case of Violet Darby which Daisy solved in a day in September. (Daisy is rather proud of that case.)

  ‘I’d like to squash Elizabeth’s head,’ said Lavinia furiously as Beanie sobbed over her fifth detention in two weeks (for misspelling the word ‘privilege’ in the essay she wrote for her fourth detention. This was not fair at all. Beanie struggles with making her words the right shape, and her numbers add up properly on the page). ‘I’d like to squash her into pulp.’ We all agreed with her, but all the same we (except Daisy) understood how hopeless it was to expect anything to change.

  That is, until what happened on Guy Fawkes Night.

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  Text copyright © Robin Stevens, 2016

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  Extract from Jolly Foul Play © Robin Stevens, 2016

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