![]() ![]() ![]() Stevens’ clever story has been constructed as a tribute to Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, published in 1934, just one year before Daisy and Hazel’s ride on that same train, and uses many similar elements. ![]() Disguised as the wife of a copper magnate, she’s really searching for a spy onboard. ![]() And it’s not just Hazel’s father prohibiting their detective efforts-there is also a fellow traveler, the undercover detective Miss Livedon, whom they’ve encountered before. Crime-solving friends Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells encounter yet another murder victim while traveling from Paris to Istanbul on the famed Orient Express in 1935.Ī jewel theft, a spy hunt, forged documents, a magician, a séance, and a locked-room murder-what more could the Detective Society (rising 14-year-old schoolmates Hazel and Daisy) hope for on a summer holiday? In this third of the Wells & Wong mysteries to be published in this country, Hazel chronicles how her father’s efforts to take their minds off crime backfires when one of their fellow first-class passengers is murdered, apparently by her jealous brother and possibly for her beautiful diamond-and-ruby necklace. ![]()
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