(Note: I'm a writer, so I suffer when I offer fewer than five stars. Daisy and Hazel, while having their moments (for instance, Daisy is usually disappointed when a crime isn't murder) are at heart deeply decent people, and the way Daisy brings this mystery to its conclusion was particularly touching. as I get older, I want to read more about nice people doing nice things (dear God, I'm even currently reading Pollyanna at the moment and I love it). And then presumably I shall review the overall collection, since it includes essays that do not appear here.Īs expected, a short, fun treat.
This was included in the collection Cream Buns and Crime so I'm reviewing the ones that are listed on Goodreads separately, separately. So while not the most gripping of the girls' adventures so far, this is still a fun interlude between books for fans of Daisy and Hazel and the Detective Society. I felt a little as if there hadn't been enough clues left out for canny readers to solve this one themselves, so wasn't quite as invested in the reveal as I may have otherwise been. From that standpoint then, the mystery could only have a perfectly ordinary explanation and when it came it wasn't quite as exciting or tricky as I was hoping it might be. I have to say that I didn't find this one quite as engaging as a short story as the Blue Violet, simply because the premise was hinged on a supernatural phenomenon and readers of this series will know that supernatural happenings are not an accepted part of the deal. In this particular novella, Daisy recounts her triumphant solving of a case that has the Deepdean girls all of a dither: is Camilla really a vampire? And if not, how can one explain the, frankly, supernatural behaviour that she has been exhibiting of late? Of course Daisy, being a natural skeptic, manages to confound any latent whisperings of vampirism by performing some quite spectacular physical feats and making the links that others have failed to notice. Much like The Case of the Blue Violet, the other novella in this series, The Case of the Deepdean Vampire is a bite-sized snack of a mystery, narrated by Daisy, rather than Hazel, who is the narrator of the full length novels.
Daisy recounts her triumphant solution to a case which, to all outward appearances, looks to have a supernatural twist.
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