Four Days' Wonder

Description

Jenny Windell is a teenage girl who's fascinated with murder mysteries. So when she finds her estranged aunt, Jane Latour, dead she's excited to have a mystery of her own to solve, but worried she may be a suspect she flees the crime scene. On the run, she befriends Derek Fenton, the dashing younger brother of acclaimed crime writer Archibald Fenton, and persuades him to join her in her Sherlock Holmes like attempts to solve the crime. It's no problem for them to outsmart dim-witted Inspector Marigold and they even find time for romance to blossom.

A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander) was born in London in 1882 and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1902 he was Editor of Granta, the University magazine, and moved back to London the following year to enter journalism. By 1906 he was Assistant Editor of Punch, a post which he held until the beginning of the First World War when he joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. While in the army in 1917 he started on a career writing plays of which his best known are Mr. Pim Passes By, The Dover Road and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows - Toad of Toad Hall. He married Dorothy de Selincourt in 1913 and in 1920 had a son, Christopher Robin. By 1924 Milne was a highly successful playwright, and published the first of his four books for children, a set of poems called When We Were Very Young, which he wrote for his son. This was followed by the storybook Winnie-the-Pooh in 1926, more poems in Now We Are Six (1927) and further stories in The House at Pooh Corner(1928). In addition to his now famous works, Milne wrote many novels, volumes of essays, a well known detective story The Red House Mystery and light verse, works which attracted great success at the time. He continued to be a prolific writer until his death in 1956.

`An entirely delightful and brilliant novel ... Elegant and gay - it is all capital fun.' * The Times Literary Supplement * 'amusing, and certainly original, and there is an appealing romance ' * Kirkus * mystery a la PG Wodehouse. very funny! * Goodreads *