In Myrtle peril / Elizabeth C. Bunce.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616209216 :
- ISBN: 1616209216 :
- Physical Description: 362 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, [2022]
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Target Audience Note: | Ages 9-12. Algonquin Young Readers. Grades 4-6. Algonquin Young Readers. |
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Subject: | Inheritance and succession > Fiction. Shipwrecks > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Howe Library | J BUN | 31254003813124 | Children's chapter books | Available | - |
Kirkus Review
In Myrtle Peril (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 4)
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Another thrilling mystery from our young Victorian sleuth. All the members of Myrtle's household are suffering from malaise at the lack of crimes to investigate. Myrt her father, the Prosecuting Solicit and her brilliant governess, Miss Judson have no villainies to uncover, and it's so dull. It's exciting when Father gets pulled into the case of a long-ago shipwreck--is Sally, a White girl about Myrtle's age, an heiress or a fraud? But the case of Sally-the-possible-heiress will have to wait; Father needs his tonsils removed (a dangerous surgery in 1894, even in a "marvelous specimen of modernity" like the Royal Swinburne Hospital). When Father witnesses a murder in the hospital, is it real or a delusion? Only Myrtle and Miss Judson, ably assisted by Sally and Peony, Myrtle's talkative cat, can expose the truth. Myriad secrets all come back to the central mystery, and though some tertiary subplots are lightly developed, the mystery as a whole is charming. How can it be otherwise when solved by "a cat, a dog, two doctors, a journalist on crutches, an unemployed law clerk, a solicitor in pyjamas, a nurse with a cricket bat, a governess, an off-duty housekeeper, and one small frantic Investigator"? Myrtle's family is White; multiple characters of color are present, including biracial French Guianese Miss Judson. Enthusiastically, chaotically delightful. (Historical mystery. 9-12) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.