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Nancy Parker’s Diary of Detection

Nancy Parker’s Diary of Detection

When Nancy Parker gets her first position as a housemaid to Mrs Bryce, it’s not exactly her dream job – she’d rather be out solving mysteries. But she soon discovers there are plenty of suspicious occurrences going on beneath her very nose . . . Time for Nancy to set to work not just with her mop but also with her Theory of Detection!

Suitable for age 9–12.

When Nancy Parker gets her first position as a housemaid to Mrs Bryce, it’s not exactly her dream job – she’d rather be out solving mysteries. But she soon discovers there are plenty of suspicious occurrences going on beneath her very nose . . . Time for Nancy to set to work not just with her mop but also with her Theory of Detection!

Suitable for age 9–12.

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ISBN-10: 0192739387
ISBN-13: 9780192739384

On this day 24th June 1920 I turned fourteen.

I plan to have a very exciting future now that I have thrown off the SHACKLES of SCHOOL! A detective is what I would most like to be. I cannot think of any reason why I could not be one. Except perhaps I am too young. And I don’t like blood.

Nancy Parker has recently been engaged in her first position – as a housemaid for the very modern Mrs Bryce. It’s not Nancy’s dream job (she’d rather be investigating crimes like they do in her beloved six-penny thrillers) but as Mrs Bryce starts to entertain her new neighbours with lavish parties, it becomes clear that something strange and interesting might be afoot.

Local burglaries, a cook with a deep, dark secret – and Mrs Bryce’s own glamorous but murky past. Will Nancy solve the mysteries while still keeping on top of her chores?

A hilarious and energetic middle-grade mystery, narrated part in the third person and part through Nancy’s journal.

‘One to put under the microscope of your budding Holmes.’ – Alex O’Connell, The Times Saturday Review

‘Intrepid housemaid-turned-detective Nancy Parker is a heroine to root for.’ – Katherine Woodfine, author of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow

‘This junior sleuth is worth investigating.’ – Children’s book of the week, Alex O’Connell, Times

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