For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, an opportunity to dig up fossils becomes even more thrilling when a corpse washes ashore in this fourth book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Enola Holmes. After an invigorating but not exactly restful trip to a Yorkshire spa during which she survived a near brush with death and foiled a murderer, aspiring writer Aggie Morton and her friend Hector are thrilled to have the opportunity to stay at a camp by the sea and watch real paleontologists at work. The famed husband and wife team of the Blenningham-Crewes are about to become even more famous with the recovery of the fossilized bones of an ichthyosaur from the sea by Lyme Regis. This news has already caught the attention of an American millionaire, a British museum and a travelling circus owner, who each want the bones for their own collections. Tensions are running high throughout the camp, from the cook, to the collectors, to the Blenningham-Crewes themselves, and become downright dangerous after Aggie and Hector make a discovery of their own: a body on the beach. Not a fossil, but a human body.
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4 primary booksAggie Morton, Mystery Queen is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2020 with contributions by Marthe Jocelyn.
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Great cover on this one!
I am a huge fan of middle-grade books, and this one was such an entertaining read. It was well written. I loved the setting. I loved the archeological aspect. The plot kept me engaged. The characters were likable and intriguing. If I had to be nit picky, I'd say it was maybe a tad bit too long. I found that it dragged a little towards the end. Overall it was a great read. I am sad that this appears to be the last book in the series. I will definitely go back and read the previous books!
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