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A 2021 Edgar (R) Award Winner, Best JuvenileA BookPage Best Book of 2020: Middle GradeA Mighty Girl's 2020 Books of the YearIntroducing Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite new amateur detective: a wickedly smart twelve-year-old with a keen interest in criminology and a nose for murder in Victorian England. Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle…
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Myrtle Hardcastle is a most unconventional twelve-year-old, especially for the 1920s—she loves forensic science. Raised by her father and her governess, she has access to his law books and court cases, her scientist-mother’s microscope and curiosity, and the sometimes reluctant encouragement and stalwart protection of Miss Ada Judson.
In this first in the series—which won the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America—Myrtle knows the death of her wealthy flower-breeding Miss Wodehouse was not natural, even if the prosecutor (her father) doesn’t want to believe it. Myrtle’s tenacity and talent had me wanting to get out my magnifying glass and…
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