An Edgar(R) Award Winning Series
Myrtle Hardcastle--twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian
amateur detective--is back on the case, solving a string of bizarre
murders in her hometown of Swinburne and picking up right where she left
off in Premeditated Myrtle and How to Get Away with Myrtle.
When the proprietor of Leighton's Mercantile is found dead on the
morning his annual Christmas shop display is to be unveiled, it's clear
a killer had revenge in mind. But who would want to kill the local
dry-goods merchant? Perhaps someone who remembers the mysterious scandal
that destroyed his career as a professor and archaeologist. When the
killer strikes again, each time manipulating the figures in the display
to foretell the crime, Myrtle finds herself racing to uncover the
long-buried facts of a cold case--and the motivations of a modern
murderer.