It’s great to see the girls in a different location as they try to solve the case against all the odds, especially as Hazel’s father expressly forbids them from getting involved in anymore dangerous adventures. In fact this entry in the family friendly series is a real affectionate nod to that original Poirot classic. With Daisy’s love for crime fiction soon makes her wonders if the catalyst for this crime was inspired by the famous Christie novel from the previous year. Robin lives in England with her husband and her pet bearded dragon, Watson.Īnother delightful tale featuring the plucky young amateur detectives from the 1930’s, this time Daisy and Hazel find themselves trying to solve a murder whilst taking a holiday on the famous Orient Express. She then went to university, where she studied crime fiction, and then worked at a children's publisher. She spent her teenage years at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she’d get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn’t). When it occurred to her that she was never going to be able to grow her own spectacular walrus moustache, she decided that Agatha Christie was the more achieveable option.

When she was twelve, her father handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when she grew up.

She has been making up stories all her life. Robin was born in California and grew up in an Oxford college, across the road from the house where Alice in Wonderland lived. She is also the author of The Guggenheim Mystery, the sequel to Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery. Robin's books are: Murder Most Unladylike (Murder is Bad Manners in the USA), Arsenic for Tea (Poison is Not Polite in the USA), First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play, Mistletoe and Murder, Cream Buns and Crime, A Spoonful of Murder, Death in the Spotlight and Top Marks for Murder.

First class murder book