Элизабет С. Банс — новинки

Миртл Хардкасл всего двенадцать. Она не борется за звание Благовоспитанной Юной Леди, пренебрегает светскими мероприятиями и чтением газет для девочек, отдавая предпочтение учебнику по токсикологии и полицейским сводкам. И как может быть по-другому, если ее отец - городской прокурор?
Миртл убеждена, что в доме, где живет пожилая мисс Вудхауз, сегодня ночью произошло ужасное преступление. Девочка начинает свое расследование, и первая загадка на ее пути - пропажа лилий, выращиванию которых старушка отдавала все силы.

Элизабет С. Банс - американская писательница, лауреат премии «Эдгар» в номинации «Лучший детский роман». Главная героиня ее детективной повести - девочка, ловко раскрывающая дела, с которыми не всегда справляется полиция, в тихом английском городке Суинберн. Проиллюстрировала книгу талантливая художница Юлия Добровольская.

Для среднего и старшего школьного возраста.

Before the train has left the station, England’s most accomplished new detective already is on a suspect’s trail.

Myrtle Hardcastle has no desire to go on a relaxing travel excursion with her aunt Helena when there are More Important things to be done at home, like keeping close tabs on criminals and murder trials. Unfortunately, she has no say in the matter. So off Myrtle goes—with her governess, Miss Judson, and cat, Peony, in tow—on a fabulous private railway coach headed for the English seaside.

Myrtle is thrilled to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Bloom, a professional insurance investigator aboard to protect the priceless Northern Lights tiara. But before the train reaches its destination, both the tiara and Mrs. Bloom vanish. When Myrtle arrives, she and Peony discover a dead body in the baggage car. Someone has been murdered—with Aunt Helena’s sewing shears.

The trip is derailed, the local police are inept, and Scotland Yard is in no rush to arrive. What’s a smart, bored Young Lady of Quality stranded in a washed-up carnival town to do but follow the evidence to find out which of her fellow travelers is a thief and a murderer?

Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England.

When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and find the killer, even if nobody else believes her — not even her father, the town prosecutor.

With sparkling wit and a tight, twisty plot, Premeditated Myrtle, the first in a series from an award-winning author, introduces a brilliant young investigator ready to take on hard cases and maddening Victorian rules for Young Ladies of Quality in order to earn her place among the most daring and acclaimed amateur detectives of her time or any other.

The gold thread promises Charlotte Miller a chance to save her family's beloved woolen mill. It promises a future for her sister, jobs for her townsfolk, security against her grasping uncle -- maybe even true love.

To get the thread, Charlotte must strike a bargain with its maker, the mysterious Jack Spinner. But the gleam of gold conjures a shadowy past -- secrets ensnaring generations of Millers. And Charlotte's mill, her family, her love -- what do those matter to a stranger who can spin straw into gold?

This is an award-winning and wholly original retelling of "Rumplestiltskin