Murder Most Unladylike: A Wells and Wong Mystery by Robin Stevens

Author:Robin Stevens [Stevens, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Children's Books, Mysteries & Detectives, Children's eBooks, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9781448193158
Google: tl2EAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00HFAMKCO
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014-06-04T23:00:00+00:00

5

Daisy could not understand why I was not more excited.

‘Watson!’ she cried, poking me jubilantly in the ribs. ‘The game’s afoot! We’re closing in!’

I bit my lip. The Case of the Murder of Miss Bell was feeling far too real. Miss Bell really was dead and was never coming back. I was holding a gym slip with real blood on it – the gym slip that the murderer must have used to mop Miss Bell’s blood off the Gym floor – and Daisy had found the trolley the murderer had used to transport Miss Bell’s body to its hiding place.

But Daisy was still galloping on, as excited about this case as she had been about The Case of The Mysterious Tuck Box Thief – as though Miss Bell was just another missing bag of bull’s eyes. ‘We’re close!’ she cried. ‘We’re very close! We’ve got the scent, and now we must run with it. Here’s the trolley, and a bloodied gym slip, and here isn’t Miss Bell’s body. So, where was she moved to? The murderer must have stowed the Bell somewhere at school between Monday evening and Tuesday night, when they came back to move it to a safer hiding place, away from the school. So now we need to be clever; we need to put ourselves into the mind of the killer. If you had a body to hide in Deepdean, what would you do with it?’

‘I wouldn’t kill anyone in the first place,’ I said.

‘All right, don’t be clever,’ said Daisy. ‘Think. It needs to be somewhere safe, and it needs to be somewhere secure.’

‘That doesn’t sound much like anywhere in Deepdean,’ I said. Honestly, I couldn’t think of a single place that would fit. A safe and secure place in Deepdean? If I’d been in a rude mood – instead of feeling frightened – I’d have said, Not likely.

Daisy frowned. ‘Yes, I know,’ she said. ‘It doesn’t, does it? Not for years, anyway. Years! Ever since they closed up the—’

She froze. I could see an idea occurring to her, like a firework going off in her head.

‘Hazel! We’ve been the most utter chumps! Imagine us not thinking of that! Oh, I could kick myself!’ And without any more explanation, she took my hand and dragged me out into the Gym again, so that I had to gallop after her or fall over.

‘Of what?’ I asked, gasping as we jolted along. ‘What?’

‘You’ll see!’ shouted Daisy. ‘Come on, come on, quick!’

She towed me out into the corridor, then immediately dragged me left into a little passageway behind the Hall. When Deepdean was first built there used to be an underground tunnel between the Hall and Old Wing, so that when it rained girls could go to Prayers without getting wet. It was bricked up long ago, though, when Library corridor was built, and now that little passageway only leads to a locked door.

At last I understood where Daisy was taking me.

‘Oh!’ I said, stopping so quickly that Daisy nearly jerked my wrist off before she noticed.

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